Kolmar Korea wins a CES 2026 Innovation Award for beauty technology

Kolmar Korea, a major South Korean cosmetics developer and contract manufacturer, won an Innovation Award at CES 2026 for its beauty technology. CES is the large annual consumer technology show organised by the Consumer Technology Association and held in Las Vegas each January.

The Innovation Awards are given ahead of the show to products that judges consider outstanding in design and engineering. They include a beauty and personal-care area, where tech-driven cosmetics devices and services have appeared more often in recent years. Winning one gave Kolmar Korea international exposure at the fair.

The award mattered because Kolmar Korea is best known for making products for other beauty brands rather than for selling under its own name. A CES prize signalled its push to present itself as a technology-minded company, in step with the wider Korean beauty industry's growing interest in personalised and digital products.

It was the first of two consecutive years of CES recognition for the company, followed by a further award a year later.