Kolmar Korea's Chinese Plant Becomes First Overseas Factory Recognized by MFDS for CGMP, Proving Quality Competitiveness

First Overseas CGMP Certification for a Korean Cosmetics Plant
Wuxi Kolmar Achieves 550 Million Annual Capacity, Enhancing Global Quality Management

Kolmar Korea's Chinese manufacturing site, Wuxi Kolmar, has become the first overseas factory among domestic cosmetics manufacturers to be officially recognized by the Ministry of Food and Drug Safety (MFDS) for having a manufacturing and quality management system equivalent to Korea's Cosmetics Good Manufacturing Practice (CGMP) standards. This marks the official validation of Kolmar Korea's domestic manufacturing and quality management system at its overseas production base.

On July 31, Kolmar Korea announced that the MFDS had acknowledged, through an on-site inspection in China, that Wuxi Kolmar's manufacturing and quality management system meets standards equivalent to domestic CGMP requirements. The MFDS reviewed the entire production process, from raw material acceptance to manufacturing procedures, quality control, and finished product shipment, using the same standards as the domestic CGMP evaluation to verify the manufacturing system and quality control capabilities.

CGMP is the MFDS’s cosmetics Good Manufacturing Practice standard operated in line with the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) requirements. Of the 4,166 domestic cosmetics manufacturers as of July 31, only 184 currently have CGMP-certified facilities.

Wuxi Kolmar, Kolmar Korea’s Chinese manufacturing subsidiary, adopts the company’s research, production, and quality management systems and has supplied products to key regions in China since its completion in 2018, with an annual production capacity of 550 million units.

Kolmar Korea is the nation's first cosmetics ODM company. In 2011, its Sejong basic cosmetics factory and Bucheon color cosmetics factory were designated as Korea’s first and second CGMP-compliant sites, respectively. The company plans to leverage this recognition to expand its manufacturing and quality management expertise, accumulated domestically, to its overseas production bases and further strengthen global quality competitiveness.

A Kolmar Korea official stated, "We will continue to implement the same manufacturing and quality management system at our global production sites to ensure consistent quality no matter where the product is made, and will refine our management system accordingly."

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