GP Graders has announced its new leadership team, which will be in charge of developing the company to deliver efficient and agile solutions to the competitive challenges of fruit growing. The key to success lies in having an experienced and committed team. GP Graders will be managed by Francois Lovens, along with his outstanding sales…

With excellent cold chill hours and near-average rainfall forecasted for the coming months, production is set to increase for cherries and stone fruits as Australia heads into the 2024/2025 harvest season. A report from the USDA Foreign Agriculture Service, published in August 2024, suggests growers can anticipate higher fruit quality if rainfall remains steady or…

Get the most out of your AirJet® grader this packing season. GP Graders are pleased to offer in-house training for gpVision™ software and hardware at our offices in Mt Waverley, Melbourne. This training is especially designed to improve operator outcomes from gpVision™ and get the most out of the software. Our objective is to arm…

Cherry growers, industry experts and special guests gathered in Hobart in late July for a three-day celebration of all things cherry. The National Cherry Industry Conference is the cherry event of the year and GP Graders were proud sponsors and attendees. Road Tripping and Connecting With Customers Our account managers Phil and Bret were keen…

English Version Con Chile a punto de convertirse en el mayor exportador mundial de cerezas, no es ninguna sorpresa que GP Graders haya estado presente desde el principio. Hemos estado activamente involucrados en la industria chilena de cerezas desde 2001, hace 23 años. En el 2001 enviamos nuestra primera máquina construida en Australia a Curicó…

Versión en español With Chile set to become the world’s largest exporter of cherries, it’s really no surprise that GP Graders has been there from the beginning. We have been actively involved with the Chilean cherry industry since 2001, 23 years ago. In 2001 we shipped our first Australian-built machine to Curico and in 2014…

You might not know it, but snack tomatoes have been making their way through vision grading machines for many years. The machinery and technology are ideal for these pint-sized tomatoes which are usually graded and sorted before making their way into punnets for supermarkets and into our homes. We’re accustomed to berries being graded this…

The agricultural sector is increasingly adopting advanced technologies to enhance efficiency, safety, and productivity. When it comes to the design and layout of packing sheds, utilising photo-realistic 3D rendering to visualise and plan these spaces offers the opportunity to turn conceptual ideas into tangible, actionable plans. The Power of 3D Rendering Photo-realistic 3D rendering involves…

Hort Connections is Australia’s premier horticultural conference and trade show. The event provides a great opportunity for the horticultural industry to get together and share ways to grow, connect and thrive. With around 3300 attendees, it is a significant event in the calendar and Australia’s largest horticultural conference. The GP sales team was in attendance…

Since it’s birth in 1963 GP Graders has earned a reputation for innovation, exceptional service and support for world-class fruit grading solutions. Beginning with apples, citrus and stone fruit, then mangoes and tomatoes, and then most notably for cherries, blueberries and snack tomatoes. But did you know, with over 60 years in the business of…

We’re thrilled to announce our attendance at Hort Connections 2024, the premier trade show for the horticulture industry in Australia, scheduled from June 3-5, 2024, at the Melbourne Convention Centre. As a leader in grading and sorting machinery, we’re combining the very latest advances in technology with precision engineering, enabling our customers to enhance their…

Agricultural technology is almost an 87 billion-dollar-a-year industry and Australia is on a mission to lift it to 100 billion dollars a year by 2030. With such big numbers at play and so many farmers and growers implanting agricultural technology into their operations, now is the time to consider how technology and high-tech farming practices…

We’ve kept this project a little on the low down because we wanted to ensure the outcomes were landing exactly where our customers need them to be. Now, after a couple of very successful harvest seasons with the new weight grading platform, we’re excited to officially introduce… gp601! Building upon our longstanding reputation of excellence…

The Extension and Communication Project Presents: The 2024 Cherry Industry Event of the Year. 🍒 Get ready for an event that’s as sweet as a perfectly ripe cherry! Cherry Growers Australia is excited to invite you to the Cherry Industry Conference, Export Workshop, and Field Day in the picturesque heart of Hobart, Tasmania. 📅 REGISTRATIONS…

Remote support is helping to streamline operations, improve grading outcomes and reduce labour costs. Having a GP Graders Technician be able to login and adjust, assist or even reboot, has allowed many packhouse managers to have even greater season success, confident in the knowledge that help is there when they need it most. Help Is…

Cherry Growers Australia recently released the following report to summarise this year’s cherry season across Australia and have graciously allowed us to share it with our audience. Out thanks is extended to each of the contributors. NEW SOUTH WALES – JESSICA FEARNLEY AND KEVIN DODDS (NSW DPI) This season was very much a mixed bag…

Vision sorting technology continues to make giant leaps forward in the sorting and grading of fresh produce. The introduction of Artificial Intelligence (AI) to distinguish a greater range of fruit defects with greater accuracy, improved camera technology, faster computer processing, flexibly written software to provide more data and it all wrapped up in a simple-to-use…

2023 has been a busy year for us and our customers. It’s been a year where we’ve travelled and met with new markets, have rolled out new technologies and seen our clients achieve new efficiencies and flexibility to upgrade and meet demand as their businesses grow. But first, let’s start with a big one… GP…

The pursuit of understanding is key to unlocking the optimal performance and benefits that a system can offer. gpVision™ was designed to be the easiest-to-use grading platform available but like any system, the better you know it, the greater the outcomes. We’ve spoken with our most experienced grader operators to get the best tips &…

Certainly, we always need the rain, but the timing is far from ideal right now. As the southern hemisphere moves into peak season for cherries and stonefruits it’s unfortunate to see rain hit right when a good crop of cherries is at maturity, ready for harvesting and packing. What is MultiView™? A few years ago,…

This year we celebrate 60 years in business, although we’ve been around orchards and the fruit-picking industry for much longer than that. 1963 was the year our journey to design and manufacture the best sorting and grading solutions for fresh producers and packers around the globe began. From simple sorting machines to our revolutionary GP…

Cherry Growers Australia (CGA), in collaboration with Agriculture Victoria, has announced the continuation of the Cherries Traceability Pilot into its second year. This visionary initiative, funded by a $811,000 grant from Agriculture Victoria’s Transforming Traceability program, remains steadfast in its mission to redefine traceability within the cherry industry, setting new benchmarks for excellence. The CGA-led…

With a rich history dating back to 1921, this family-owned orchard has been cultivating delicious cherries for over a century. In this Q&A session with Kristin Dasso, we delve into their experience, the challenges they’ve faced, and their decision to partner with GP Graders. Discover the insights and motivations that led A & A Dasso…

Fair Farms is an Industry-led initiative aimed at fostering fair and responsible employment practices in Australian Horticulture. Fair Farms believe that the majority of horticulture growers and other industry members want to do the right thing by their workers. However, it can be challenging to navigate our complex employment and WHS laws and regulations. As…

A profitable packing house needs to send out the right fruit in the right quantities at the right time. Until now, growers have relied on manual weighing and the accuracy of their staff to ensure that fruit is packed to weight. However, in a dynamic operation where multiple products are being run on the same…

For the last two years, Australian growers have suffered the effects of a Chinese trade ban on Australian products, including fruit. The ban was initially put in place due to political tensions arising when then Prime Minister, Scott Morrison, called for an independent inquiry into the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic. Thankfully, many of the…

Nestled in the rolling hills of Victoria’s Yarra Valley, Yarra Valley Cherries is a boutique grower with 20,000 trees and over 35 varieties. Unlike some other growers in the area who offer a pick-yourself experience, Yarra Valley Cherries focuses on selling premium, ultra-fresh cherries at their Farm Gate Shop as well as distributing the fruit…

Milbor PMC is a family-run business based in Poland that supports fruit growers and packing companies by providing and implementing high-end technology solutions. They are also the exclusive dealer of GP Graders machinery in Europe. A Global Market The worldwide demand for high-quality blueberries year-round means that it is essential that the export market is…

As the fruit season comes to an end it’s important to properly clean and maintenance check your equipment to ensure it’s ready to go for the next season. Proper maintenance and cleaning of your grading equipment not only prolongs the machinery’s lifespan but also ensures a smooth start-up going into the next season. In this…

We recently dropped by SM Export in Curicó, Chile, to have a chat with Jaime Arrieta (Operations Manager), about their packhouse processes, grader performance and the cherry harvest season that’s just wrapped up. What size are your orchards and how long have you been growing cherries? We have 331 há. of cherries with 205 há….

February brings a close to the 2022/23 Australian cherry season and as we clean our machinery, lock our packing sheds, and prepare for the year to come, it’s well worth taking time to look back. Here are our key reflections on the season that was. A wet start to the season Heavy rainfall associated with…

Infantino United Fruit are a fruit grower located in the Swan Hill region of Victoria. They operate over 480 acres of land and have been in the fresh produce growing industry for over 60 years. Their crop includes peaches, nectarines, and persimmons. Project Summary With international exports opening and a more favourable growing season, Infantino…

Recently, on ABC’s ‘Landline’ program, there was a fantastic article on the Australian cherry industry. Featuring growers from the Young and Orange growing regions, the piece offers excellent insights into the industry from new operators, right through to highly experienced veterans of the game. One of our long-standing customers, Fiona Hall of the BiteRiot brand…

Our recent attendance at the Berlin edition of Fruit Logistica was a truly wonderful return to face-to-face networking and connection. Arguably the most important trade show on the horticulture industry’s calendar, this 3-day event brings together nearly 2600 exhibitors from 92 countries to present their latest products, services and innovations. With our international partners, Milbor PMC and A&B…

The internet and fruit? Strange title, we know. What does the internet have to do with fruit? No, we’re not talking about doing your weekly fruit and veg shopping online. It’s much more than that. The internet and technology, in general, are revolutionising the agricultural industries, from planting and monitoring to packing and distribution. To…

It’s been a journey. And like most worthwhile adventures, there are trials and tribulations along the way. When you’re developing a hyper-intelligent automated solution for the high-speed sorting of an immensely variable, natural product like fruit, you know you’re going to come up against some challenges and as such, it remains ever-important to remain open-minded…

With the rush of the picking season upon us, we’d like to take a few moments to reflect on the success and growth 2022 has brought for our company and the businesses that we support. Vision Support Packages Set Cherry Growers up for Success Delivering high-quality fruit to the market is always front of mind,…

Forecasting customer demand, increased labor costs and shortages of workers are the everyday issues that fresh produce packers and producers are confronted with. Applying appropriate technological solutions, blueberry producers now have the ability to adapt to the requirements of their customers and fulfill orders quickly and reliably. The AirJet® Blueberry Grader developed by Australian company, GP…

With over 30 years of personal experience in the industry, extensive knowledge in exporting and a passion for innovation and progress, we posed some questions to our company director, Stuart Payne, to gain some valuable insights about current fruit grading innovations and developments. 1. Why has vision grading of fresh produce had such prolific growth…

Strong international demand and consumers’ desire to eat blueberries year-round presents a unique opportunity for local growers and packers to ready their blueberries for export. The growth of the blueberry category is evident in markets such as China, where consumers are particularly interested in the fruit’s health benefits. Opportunities for Australian growers extends well beyond…

The Honourable Linda Dessau AC, Victoria’s 29th governor, and the first female in the role, graciously made the time to visit GP Graders earlier this month and may we just say, it was an absolute joy to meet and discuss both the history of GP Graders and some of what the future has in stall…

What was it all about? From 2019 to 2022, this ‘Cherry Market Access and Trade Development’ project (CY18002) supported the export readiness of the Australian cherry industry to help Australian cherry growers to take advantage of existing, new and emerging export opportunities. When this project commenced, the Australian cherry industry was (and still is) in…

Australia and New Zealand’s premiere horticulture event, Hort Connections, took place back in June and GP Graders’ Director, Stuart Payne and Head of Design, Timothy Stack were there to meet with some of the best in the business. The annual Hort Connections trade show brings together growers, exhibitors and sponsors from across all sections of…

When harvest season is just around the corner, it pays to be prepared. One of the busiest seasons in an already non-stop industry calls for every tick box to be checked well in advance. We all know processing delays cost time and money and generate a whole lot of stress. And who wants that? As…

With the summer harvest season in Australia fast approaching, it’s time to get your AirJet® grader in perfect working order for day one. To help prepare for the season, GP Graders are pleased to offer a Vision Support Package (VSP) service for your AirJet® grader. Our highly skilled technicians will conduct the VSP to ensure…

It’s just a harsh reality that things go pear-shaped sometimes. We don’t like it any more than you do. To further enhance the support channels for our customers, we’ve created a direct link between our grading software and our online ticketing system for logging service and support requests. This newly launched platform, for our customers…

With the launch of our gpVision™ in 2018 came the intention to significantly improve the usability of fruit grading software. All systems to date have had a steep learning curve and lacked intuitiveness, making the process of getting the machine up and running arduous and frustrating. The result of the last 2 years of research,…

In May 2022, we celebrate the 4 year anniversary of gpVision™, our flagship grading solution for cherries, blueberries, snack tomatoes, grapes and stone fruit. With over 50 sites across the globe now running gpVision™, it’s abundantly evident that the sorting solutions GP Graders are providing are being celebrated by produce packers that demand superior sorting…

The 2021-2022 cherry season was conditioned by the C19 pandemic, however, this season two new factors were added: the increase in packing costs and the delay in the logistics and distribution of containers. At the beginning, early cherry varieties were in good condition, a situation that remained stable until the days prior to the Chinese…

Our service and support team now have an online ticketing system to better manage your support requests. We’ve also set up a direct number to put you in contact with the right person to help with your machine and grading program queries. To lodge a service or support request simply visit support.gpgraders.com , login, and…

Tasmania’s reputation for high-quality fresh produce is truly well deserved. There’s pride in the fruit that’s produced and great care is taken to ensure that fruit is delivered to consumers at a level that defines the region as one of the world’s greatest. When Spreyton Fresh and GP Graders first established their relationship, nearly 10…

It was a busy year in 2021 with a large number of packing sheds making the switch to our proprietary vision grading system, gpVision™.  These businesses that upgraded to gpVision™ on their existing machinery were elated with the difference it made for the quality of fruit they could pack and labour cost reductions they benefitted…

People often think we flatten roads. That’s usually the first thing that comes to mind when we mention grading.  In fact, just the other day we had a chuckle about the fact that one of the longest-standing employees took up a job here when he was 17 because he liked heavy machinery and thought road…

After a couple of years of challenges for in-person events, we’re pleased to be attending a number of upcoming events: The 79th Annual Cherry Institute Date: Friday, January 7, 2022 Venue: Yakima Convention Center, Yakima, Washington Info: Each year, the Cherry Institute Board meets to discuss critical topics and challenges they think are important to…

Around 15 years ago, sales of mechanical graders for cherries came to a grinding hold. Practically overnight, sales went from countless builds to less than a few in a year. It was the introduction of electronic vision grading systems that marked the monumental shift and it has forever changed the way cherries are packed, priced…

In a time when labour is not only expensive but also in short supply, a business plan or strategy that’s weighted towards staff reduction is more important than ever before. If the yields that your business is producing exceed 100 tonnes, and you’re still using manual methods to grade your fruit, it’s high time you…

GP Graders has moved its US operations to Goldendale, WA. Below are some helpful contact details: US Office Number (509) 265-6847 US Sales Manager – Darryl Parker (559) 788-9414 Service Requests https://gpgradersassist.freshdesk.com/ Parts parts@gpgraders.com Logistics logistics@gpgraders.com Accounts accounts@gpgraders.com

Our next guest in the monthly mini interview is Stuart Payne from GP Graders. We’ve talked about cherry season and the ways to successfully identify defects to manage challenges during season. ⚖️ 🍒 Q: How would you sum up the cherry season in Central Europe? A: The European season was very challenging due to weather problems. In the central…

GP Grader’s industry-leading gpVision™ technology has been launched for stone fruit. Achieving excellent results already on a number of machines running in the US, the new 601 Stone Fruit Grader with gpVision is effectively separating blemished fruit from good fruit and increasing the overall quality of the fruit in the box. This defect detection capability,…

Versión en español The 2020/21 southern hemisphere cherry export season ended with a record 366,543 tons, or 52% more than the previous season. This new record figure was thanks to exports from Chile, which increased by 54.4% to 352,949 tons. The remarkable growth in exports from Chile is explained by the fact that more than…

We spoke to Dave at Yanchep Springs recently about how their new AirJet® Blueberry Grader is running. Suffice to say, the entire crew is elated with the results so far. Internationally trained, third-generation orchardist, David Mazzardis and his wife Leasa, supply blueberry seedlings and plants to most states in Australia, and many countries around the…

The most significant limitation with optical grading of fruit is actually a physical one. How do you ‘see’ every part of the surface of the fruit all of the time. Certainly, we use mechanical operations to rotate the cherry as it passes under the cameras but there is still room for error in this process,…

It’s been just over 2 years since AirJet Vision™ was brought to market with an overwhelmingly positive response from early adopters. An entirely new, proprietary optical sizing, colour and defect detection system developed entirely in-house by a team of talented software and electrical engineers who have poured literally hundreds of thousands of hours into creating…

Local footy is a mainstay in many regional areas of Australia. It brings the locals together, provides weekend entertainment, ongoing conversation plus promotes a competitive spirit in all involved. With a number of our customers based in one of the most important fruit growing regions of Australia, the Hume, we’ve recently opted to sponsored the…

The global pandemic has presented unique challenges for most businesses. And for the agricultural and horticulture sectors, one of the biggest challenges has to be labour shortages. There are countless reports, articles and posts expressing the great pressure being felt in the industry and we absolutely empathise with the situation. In fact, it’s a driving…

If there’s one thing the global pandemic of 2020 has taught us, it’s that the future of business relies on automation and smarter operations. The days of simply employing more and more labour to tend to the workload will be an undoing, not only because of the rising cost, but due to the availability of…

Calidad en berries means Quality in Berries, and that’s a statement that can be stood by. Alfaberries, from Chillán, continue to exceed expectations with their blueberry packing facility. There is an absolute buzz around just how successfully they’re processing literally tonnes and tonnes of blueberries. Here’s some of the feedback we’ve recently received from their…

Main Range Orchard, like most of the cherry farms in the Young & Orange areas have had a bumper year with excellent yields, no frost and minimal damage from pests. The only major setbacks were the late rain and hail that damaged a substantial amount of crops. Still, it hasn’t stopped Tim & Neil Wells…

For years, the GP501 Weight Grader has been reliably sorting a variety of stone fruits for growers and packers across Australia and the world. It’s a workhorse of a machine, with many having been in packing sheds for decades. When we were approached to adapt our vision technology to stone fruits, we welcomed the challenge….

In March 2021, the GP Graders team travelled to Bundaberg in Central Queensland to pilot its first MultiView™ camera system for cherry and mini Roma tomatoes, collectively nicknamed, ‘snack’ tomatoes. Read On…

The first MultiView™ Camera system results are in! And they are excellent. Our friends at Gunkell Orchards kindly allowed us to do some real-world testing for the end-on cameras designed to capture the difficult surfaces of cherries. For cherries, we’ve utilised an extra 6 cameras, mounted on angle at the front and rear of the…

The role technology plays in our lives has become so engrained that it’s hard to imagine a life without it. The crazy thing is that there’s still a long, long way to go. Just the other day, we we’re watching a video on YouTube that promoted the idea of putting on a pair of Virtual…

The global pandemic may very well have pulled the handbrake up on many projects across the globe but for GP Graders, it’s seen an uptick in business with the demand for smarter production solutions more important than ever before. For Dave & Leasa Mazzardis, the decision to bring in electronic grading machines was a foregone…

The harvest experience for many cherry growers in 2020 is significantly different to any other year in the past few decades, with the pandemic creating havoc with the supply chain, availability of cherry pickers and sorting staff, and the restrictions on an international workforce being able to enter Australia.With so many factors weighing in the…

The industry has been severely disrupted by the Coronavirus pandemic and it is obvious there will be long-term consequences to the produce sorting landscape. In many countries, a majority of packing staff workforces are populated by overseas workers, most of whom are in the country on a temporary basis. Movement between borders is almost certain…

JobKeeper payments don’t apply to most packers, meaning that finding the pickers and sorting staff needed to harvest and grade the crop is becoming a much greater concern. Not having enough people to work the harvest will be catastrophic to the industry. This risk is very real, with university students remaining overseas and backpackers and…

When AirJet Vision® launched on the market, it marked a quantum leap for grading technologies. Revolutionising the performance measures of grading has catapulted producers’ productivity levels significantly – an investment that has paid dividends for all stakeholders. For GP Graders, the reward for developing cutting edge vision electronics which focus on speed and accuracy has…

The push to remove human contact from the produce grading process is highly warranted. Although profitability is always a priority, it’s far from the only driver behind the trend. The supply of picking and sorting staff has been severely reduced due to the state of international borders. With so many of these workers arriving internationally,…

As stringent border control and other social measures impact daily life around the world, Australia has been fortunate to be able to avoid the brunt of the crisis. This has given Australian manufacturers opportunities to push their products onto the global stage and has highlighted the exceptional reliability and value that our products deliver. Manufacturing…

With most of Europe in lockdown and unable to fulfil customer orders, Australia is unlikely to face the same restrictions in the manufacturing sector. Australia being a more sparsely populated country with generally healthier people, bears little comparative similarities with Europe or China, where the outbreak of COVID-19 is at its most rampant. In fact,…

Known as Mirabelle or cherry plums, this smaller variety ran perfectly over the AirJet Vision® software throughout the season. The software successfully identified all external defects including scars, splits, wind rub, bruising, softness and discolouration. Production ran at about 1 tonne per hour per lane of the grader. The launch of AirJet Vision® took place…

Human labour is a growing expense, with wages subject to legislative increases on a regular basis. Costs associated with overtime, penalty rates, insurance and retirement have motivated packers to switch from manual labour to smart equipment solutions. Sourcing labour becomes an increasingly arduous task and retaining it in this competitive market is equally difficult. Current…

Since installing the machine, the line has been running double shifts in order to process the season’s blueberry crop. As a significant exporter, Alfaberries is now able to export with confidence, being able to separate soft and firm blueberries, remove all defect fruits, size grade and most importantly, remove shriveled or dehydrated fruits. As the…

AirJet Vision® puts GP Graders in complete control of the development process for the software on its machinery. It was a logical step and took several years of intense development, but the results have been better than expected. “We introduced Ellips to the cherry business more than a decade ago with their software development under…

Geofrut in Chile replaced their 20 lanes of old Ellips SD with AirJet Vision® and are so thrilled with the results they plan to replace the 10 lanes of old Ellips HD electronics with AirJet Vision® in time for next year. By comparison, AirJet Vision® removed 40% more defects than the Ellips SD system and…

The Australia – Latin America Business Council (ALABC) and the Council of Australia Latin America Relations (COALAR) recognise outstanding contributions to the development of Australia’s commercial links with the Latin American region through their‚ ‘Australia – Latin American Business Excellence Awards’. In recognition of our team’s efforts, GP Graders has taken out top honours for…

The AirJet® Blueberry grader is the only full sanitary machine on the market complying to global Hygiene Standard 3-A SSI. We identified one of the major weaknesses of the blueberry graders entering the market is the complete disregard for the difficulties in cleaning and maintaining the machinery. All these modern blueberry machines have been designed…

The market-changing technology, AirJet® Vision, has superior vision camera capability that allows for the grading of cherries and blueberries to be achieved at the highest standards and in the next release stage will be enhanced to surpass any other grading machinery in the market with previously unreleased camera technology, at a much more affordable price. Improving…

MEDIA RELEASE: GP Graders and A&B Packing are proud to announce they will be combining their strengths to offer a complete grading and packing solution.

By Matthew Jones  The capabilities of grading equipment have advanced considerably since GP Graders entered the sector in the early 1960s. Can you briefly detail this evolution through the eyes of your company? Stuart Payne: For cherries, we started out manufacturing mechanical grading machinery, which was the industry standard until the early 2000s. We were…

GP Graders is entering a truly exciting time with the worldwide tie-up with A&B Packing out of Michigan, USA.

GP Graders’ new AirJet® Vision software is able to separate blueberries into categories which have never before been possible.

Chile is the largest global exporter of blueberries, having exported 110,000 thousand metric tonnes of blueberries in 2017 compared to its previous year’s statistics of 103,000 thousand metric tonnes. Furthermore, there has been an evident boom in Chinese investments into the Chilean blueberry market enabling the production quantity and quality of these blueberries to improve…

Over their years of operation, Benning Blueberries has faced a number of challenges with their blueberry growth and supply, their labour, output consistency, sorting accuracy and speed, and meeting the growing demand for high quality blueberries. Before their contact with GP Graders, they had a grading system which serviced the purpose of when it was…

GP Graders new AirJet® Blueberry grader is sorting perfectly at the latest installation in Australia. Installed at KS Benning & Son in Coffs Harbour …

Wandin Valley Farms’ relationship with GP Graders began in 1984. Since then Wandin Valley Farms have continued to grow and over these years with six new machinery installations from GP Graders in 1984, 1991, 1995, 2002, 2012 & 2018, each machine installation doubling their production capacity. For this 2018 season, which kicks off within two…

GP Graders have spent the past several years developing algorithms specifically designed for the removal of internal and external defects of cherry and grape tomatoes. These algorithms will enable growers and packhouses to minimize sorting staff from the packing line to virtually zero. Harvesting staff are now instructed to simply strip pick crops from the…

The AirJet® sorts blueberries according to size, color and softness/firmness. It also separates the blueberries with defects such as shrivel, stem on, splits and marks. Fast, gentle and accurate, GP Graders’ AirJet® grader sorts blueberries at a speed of 40 units per second per lane, yielding extremely high productivity while maintaining grading accuracy. A GP…

“GP Graders’ latest AirJet® cherry grader is the most productive machine in the market, in the world. The new grader now can define more classes of fruit than ever before, increasing the value of each batch and almost doubling the output volume of the original machine. The volume output we are achieving on 6 lane…

As the pressures of a global market place take hold, Australia can no longer compete in low-skill manufacturing and need to focus on advanced manufacturing techniques. Stuart and the team at GP Graders understand these challenges and have built the business on an innovate culture and reputation for continued excellence. With a clear focus on…

The awards ceremony was held on Thursday May 12, at the Novotel in Sydney Olympic Park with a large attendance from the Australian manufacturing sector. With strong competition in the field GP Graders was recognised as the 2016 Exporter of the Year. GP Graders received this award by demonstrating how exporting an Australian made product…

At the turn of the century the Payne family was among the first settlers in the Glen Waverley district, south east of Melbourne. Geoff’s parents cleared a small parcel of land to plant apple and stone fruit orchards. For decades orchard farmers relied on manual labour to sort and package their produce. But Geoff Payne…

The Australian Trade Commission (Austrade) and the Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (ACCI) partner to present this national program, one of the longest running business awards programs in Australia. The program is made possible through the collaboration of all the States and Territories, who each independently run their export awards programs. The Awards operates…

GP Graders has been designing and building fruit grading machinery for nearly 50 years and has been exporting for the past 15 years. Over the years, we have exported citrus and apple machinery to China, Thailand, Norway and Turkey and cherry machinery throughout Europe and North and South America. GP Graders is the world’s leading…

The judging criteria is weighted across promotion of advanced manufacturing initiatives, sustainability, export, sustained contribution to the manufacturing sector, quality management initiatives, size and capability and contribution to the community. The award adds to the long list of accolades GP Graders has received since first taking out the Governor of Victoria Export award for Small…

GP Graders has become a flag-bearer for Australian manufacturing and exporting with its cutting-edge fruit sorting technology being exported to Chile, the US, Canada and Europe. GP Graders’ export success is two-fold; as they supply this technology to local Australian exporting companies, improving their efficiency and allowing them to better compete in international markets. In…

Over 380 people were in attendance at the Crown Towers when the Australian Packaging and Processing Machinery Association (APPMA) announced the winners for the 2015 APPMA Industry Excellence Awards which are supported by Agility, Midway Metals, PKN and SMC Australia. According to Mr Mark Dingley, Chairman, APPMA, the biennial Industry Excellence Awards are designed to…

GP Graders Managing Director, Stuart Payne, acknowledged his team in accepting the award for their continued focus on innovation and setting the industry standard for others to follow. “I am delighted GP Graders has been recognised for its commitment to international export markets,” Mr. Payne said. “Our team has been unapologetic in its approach to…

When we first considered exporting manufacturing equipment as a business strategy we already had some demand for our cherry grading equipment. Early on, one Italian customer purchased three of our machines to sort and grade cherries. It was from this one customer – who happened to have a very high profile in the industry –…

“We have been at the forefront of grading machinery technology for a long time and we make continuous improvements to technology by listening to our clients’ needs,” Payne said. “This has built up goodwill with our many clients across the globe and we hope to continue our push for excellence in this field whilst contributing…

The new AirJet® grader incorporates several slick, new design features including a floating conveyor through a floor mounted camera structure that eliminates issues caused by sustained machine vibration. The machine will be live and in operation throughout PMA, so attendees can see first hand exactly what it’s capabilities are. Come and visit us at stand…

Mr Robb said the awards highlight international business excellence at a time when opportunities offshore have never been greater. “The businesses recognised by these awards make a huge contribution to our economy, and I congratulate the winners – indeed all the finalists – for their commitment, creativity and drive,” he said. GP Graders is an…

GP Graders’ new service, support and spare parts facility is based in Curico. All customers offered pre-season maintenance on AirJet cherry lines

GP Grader’s Airjet software continues to provide benefits for Rivermaid Trading Company, as well as reducing packing costs and increasing revenue.

GP Graders are celebrating their 13th year since first installation of cherry grading line in USA with steady growth

GP Graders new cluster cutter allows user the greatest flexibility and the highest separation rate possible.

Newly installed HD cameras on Rivermaid’s 40 lane AirJet® has been a new success, with heavy rain not severely affecting packed quality of cherries.