Snack Tomatoes

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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,…

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.

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…

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…