The business, based in Hawarden, Flintshire, was established in 1966 and was previously known as Hawarden Sheeters.

The NOI was filed on 27 March.

Boardlink’s core product offering is carton board sales, conversion and lamination, including display boards for point-of-sale.

The firm also lays claim to being the UK’s largest manufacturer of paper plates and dual-ovenable paper trays. Paper plate production capacity is 500m plates per year.  

Boardlink also makes catering and janitorial wipes and cloths.

The firm’s annual sheeting capacity is 45,000 tonnes and it runs a bespoke 1.6m-wide carton board laminator that can bond up to five substrates from reel to sheet.

In its most recent financial results, for 2023, privately owned Boardlink posted relatively stable sales, down 1.4% at £14.4m, and an operating margin of 5.32%.

It employed just under 70 people at that time.

The directors stated that destocking was a main feature of the year, and had taken longer than most had predicted.

“However, despite the resulting low demand there is still strong requirement for plastic replacement. Once stock levels are under control demand will increase in line with underlying market requirements.”

The reason for filing the NOI are not clear and Boardlink managing director Ben Still had not commented at the time of writing.

An industry source said they believed that a key carton board supplier had stopped supplying the business, and production ceased at the end of last week, but this has not been confirmed.