Cherries

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…

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…

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…

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…

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 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…

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…

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,…

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 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…

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’ 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…

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’ 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…

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…