July 31 (Reuters) - Essentra Plc (Other OTC: FLRAF - news) reported a 6 percent increase in half-year pretax profit as demand for its cigarette filters rose.
Adjusted pretax profit rose to 64.2 million pounds ($108.6 million) for the six months ended June 30 from 60.3 million pounds a year earlier.
Revenue rose 12 percent to 431.1 million pounds. ($1 = 0.5912 British Pounds) (Reporting by Aashika Jain in Bangalore; Editing by Robin Paxton)
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