The Canadian owners of Wigton's Innovia Group have reported a "healthy" sales growth in the second quarter of 2017.

CCL Industries has said these grew 30.5 per cent to 1,252.9m Canadian dollars (almost £759.4m), compared to 960.2 million (more than £582m) for the same period last year.

It added that 26.1 per cent of this growth was driven by the acquisitions of Innovia, which was completed on February 28, and American firm Checkpoint Systems.

Operating incomefor the second quarter of 2017 was 188.3m Canadian dollars (more than £114m), an increase of 31.6 per cent compared to 143.1m Canadian dollars (more than £86.7m) for the same quarter of 2016.

CCL has also reported that restructuring and "other items" cost it 5.2m Canadian dollars (about £3.2m) . This consisted of severance costs of 2.2m Canadian dollars (more than £1.3m) for each of the Checkpoint and Innovia acquisitions, as well as other acquisition-related transaction costs of 0.8m (almost £485,000).

Geoffrey T. Martin, the company's president and chief executive officer, said: "Second quarter results were underpinned by the newly configured CCL delivering healthy 5.7 per cent organic sales growth considering the timing of Easter and a challenging double digit comparative for the prior year period.

"CCL Secure had an excellent first full quarter with results above expectations from the Innovia Security acquisition while CCL Design outperformed on stronger demand from electronics customers. consumer packaging and Healthcare end markets also posted growth, as did CCL overall in all major geographies."

He added: "Innovia's film business profitability was significantly lower than expected due to an intra-quarter spike in polypropylene resin prices that, so far partially reversed in the third quarter."