#Calbee

The leading Japanese snack-food manufacturer Calbee has made headlines through its announced switch to black-and-white packaging for some of its products due to naphtha shortages, which are having a growing impact on a wide range of industries.

Calbee says it would temporarily use only black and white colours on 14 of its products due to a lack of printing ink.

The packaging on some snacks is turning black-and-white, as the war in Iran disrupts the supply of an ingredient used in colored ink. Calbee's chips originally came in a bright-orange bag.

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The impacts of the Strait of Hormuz closure are being felt beyond the price of gas.

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

As the blockade of the Strait of Hormuz chokes off essential raw materials, Japan’s top crisp maker is stripping the colour from its iconic bags to keep production lines running.

From Independent RSS Feed: Japan’s biggest crisp-maker swaps colourful packaging for black-and-white as Iran war triggers shortages

Calbee to switch its brightly coloured packaging to black and white because war has disrupted supply of certain raw materials used in ink