Richard Simms and Steven Ford at F A Simms & Partners were appointed to the company on 10 August 2010; however the administrator has not commented on the situation.

No-one from Norpak was available for comment and the company's number is no longer being answered.

It was announced in January that Norpak had joined forces with newspaper mailroom equipment distributor WRH Marketing.

Lee Whatmough, head of WRH Marketing, told PrintWeek today that there had been no contact between the companies for some time.

He said: "Information in the market place is sparse. We haven't been contacted about the situation by Norpak and I wouldn't be able to add too much because I don't know what is going on. Obviously any arrangement between the two companies is no longer active."