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 mistake.

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

The effective closure of the Strait of Hormuz has severely disrupted global supplies of energy and petrochemicals.

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 mistake.

Japan’s top maker of snacks has landed on a creative solution to conserve oil-derived input materials: it will switch its brightly colored packaging to

TOKYO: Japan’s leading potato chip maker is feeling the crunch from shortages linked to the Iran war, swapping its signature orange-and-yellow packets for black and white. A…

Japan gets 70% of its total imports of naphtha, a petroleum-based material used in printing inks, from the Middle East.

Calbee is swapping its signature orange-and-yellow packets for black and white.

The packaging on some snacks in Japan is turning a somber black-and-white, as the war in Iran disrupts the supply of an ingredient in colored ink.

The move is the latest caused by the effective closure of the Strait of Hormuz because of the war in Iran. The war has sent prices of oil and other products higher, as well as…

Calbee, a major Japanese snack maker, has announced a temporary switch to monochrome packaging for some of its potato chips. CNN’s Hanako Montgomery explains why the move has to…