Blueberries

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,…

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…

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 …

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 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…