{"id":262276,"date":"2026-05-13T14:23:39","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T10:23:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/?p=262276"},"modified":"2026-05-13T15:13:37","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T11:13:37","slug":"saving-on-colors-war-against-iran-pushes-japanese-snack-maker-to-switch-to-black-and-white-packaging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/news\/262276\/","title":{"rendered":"Saving on colors: War against Iran pushes Japanese snack maker to switch to black-and-white packaging"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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 black and white, Reuters<\/a> writes.<\/p>\n

In an ‌eye-catching move, Tokyo-based Calbee on Tuesday said it would temporarily use only two ink colors on 14 of its products.<\/p>\n

As noted, products with the revised packaging will hit store shelves from May 25.<\/p>\n

Calbee, which has the largest share of the domestic snacks market, said the initiative was aimed at maintaining stable shipments in ⁠response to the unstable supply affecting “certain raw materials” due to the US-Israeli war on Iran.<\/p>\n

Printing ink requires naphtha, an oil derivative for which Japan relies on imports from the Middle East for about 40% of its consumption.<\/p>\n

Japanese companies have lately sought to minimize the impact of rising costs and input material shortages even as the government seeks to reassure the public and businesses over supplies.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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 black and white, Reuters writes. In an ‌eye-catching move, Tokyo-based Calbee on Tuesday said it would temporarily use only two ink colors on 14 of its products. As noted, products with […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":262253,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,43,96,98,101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-262276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-world","category-iran-en","category-other-en","category-economy"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=262276"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262276\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":262282,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262276\/revisions\/262282"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/262253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=262276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=262276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=262276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}