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.<\/p>\n
A shortage of printing ink made from naphtha, which is typically produced through crude oil refining, could affect other food manufacturers.<\/p>\n
Calbee notified the retailers it supplies of the design change on May 8, sources said.<\/p>\n
Fourteen items will be affected, including potato chip varieties \u201cUsushio Aji\u201d (lightly salted flavor), \u201cConsomme Punch\u201d and \u201cNorishio\u201d (salt and seaweed), as well as \u201cKappa Ebisen\u201d shrimp-flavored crackers and \u201cKataage Potato\u201d hard-fried chips.<\/p>\n
The packaging for these products will be changed in stages to a monochrome format, starting with shipments from May 25, the sources said.<\/p>\n
Calbee told its business partners that it may request further adjustments and cooperation.<\/p>\n
\u201cDepending on how the situation evolves, we anticipate the possibility of additional impacts arising,\u201d the company said.<\/p>\n
At a news conference on May 12, Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary Kei Sato said the government plans to interview companies about supplies of naphtha and printing ink in connection with Calbee\u2019s decision.<\/p>\n
He said the government has not received reports about imminent supply disruptions, but ministries and agencies involved are communicating with companies to obtain more information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Snack food manufacturer Calbee Inc. plans to switch to black-and-white packaging for some mainstay products, including potato chips,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":437573,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[18697,114,85,46,1437,43],"class_list":["post-437572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-asahi-shimbun","tag-business","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-japan","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=437572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437572\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/437573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=437572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=437572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=437572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}