DUBLIN, July 8 (Reuters) - The chief financial officer

of newly formed paper packaging giant Smurfit WestRock

said consumer demand is coming "along nicely" and at similar

levels in the second quarter to the growth seen in the first

three months of the year.

Prior to Smurfit Kappa and Westrock ( WRK ) completing their merger

and commencing trading on the New York Stock Exchange on Monday,

Smurfit Kappa had reported 3% volume growth in Europe in the

first quarter, and U.S. based WestRock ( WRK ) a rebound in demand.

"There's no massive ramp up in anything, but it's tipping

along nicely in that sense, the world has not got itself back to

an incredibly happy place but what we would have seen as we

moved through the second quarter was very similar to the first

quarter," Ken Bowles told Reuters in an interview.