If you’re shopping for your favorite Calbee chips in Japan and see that familiar bag in black and white – it’s not a printing ...

Discover how a global naphtha shortage is forcing Japan's iconic Calbee potato chip to shift packaging to black-and-white.

The government maintains that there is enough naphtha for local industries, though bottlenecks have been identified.

By Chang-Ran Kim TOKYO, May 12 (Reuters) - Japan's top maker of snacks has landed on a creative solution to conserve oil-derived input materials: it will switch its brightly coloured packaging to ...

The food giant Calbee said shortages of naphtha, a crude-oil derivative used in inks, were forcing it to switch to ...

The Tokyo-based company said it will use only two ink colors for the packaging of 14 products, including Potato Chips, Kappa ...

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A popular Japanese snack brand's bags are going black-and-white as the US-Israeli war with Iran disrupts global energy ...

Last May 12, the popular Japanese snack brand Calbee announced that it would temporarily revise its bright-colored packaging ...

Calbee says it is using monochrome designs for some of its products, as the Iran war has caused a shortage of naphtha used in packaging.

Snack food manufacturer Calbee Inc. plans to switch to black-and-white packaging for some mainstay products, including potato chips, due to unstable ink supplies stemming from the Middle East crisis.

CNBC's Kaori Enjoji explains how Calbee's shift to black-and-white packaging amid a naphtha shortage highlights Japan's ...