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Japanese Snack Giant Calbee Shifts to Monochrome Packaging Due to Oil Crunch

Calbee, a popular Japanese snack brand, is temporarily switching to monochrome packaging for some products. This change is due to a shortage of naphtha, a crude-oil derivative, impacting printing ink supplies.

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