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Grade smarter, sort faster, compete better. Meet us at the Global Produce & Floral Show 2026

Written by John Albert | Aug 17, 2026, 7:17:03 AM


Smart grading that helps you retain and attract customers. 


Every grower and packer wants to turn every harvest into maximum value. But quality, labor and volume all seem to pull against each other. Pushing on one puts pressure on the rest.

Three pressures, all on the line at once:

    • Miss your volume targets or delivery deadlines and customers go elsewhere.
    • Stay dependent on scarce labor and one bad season can stop your line.
    • Let quality slip on one batch and you lose the premium price and the trust that came with it.

That's exactly why growers and packers are looking for a way to improve all three at once.
✅ It's what keeps market share growing, protects reputation and secures the future of the business.

Consistent quality is what turns a one-time buyer into a repeat customer, and a strong reputation is what brings new ones through the door. Do it with less labor and lower operating costs, and you're not just protecting margins; you're able to compete on price without giving up quality.  

 👉 At the Global Fresh Produce & Floral Show 2026, we'll show you how leading growers and packers are already doing exactly that with Ellips True-AI.  

260+ growers and packers worldwide, running over 1,600 lanes, have already upgraded to Ellips True-AI, whether on new Elisam and Elifab graders or retrofitted onto the grading machine they already have. 


Customers span the United States and Canada, Europe, South America, Africa, the Middle East, Asia and Australia.

In the US and Canada alone, that includes:


👉 Customers consistently report strong returns through labor savings, higher throughput and better quality.


Why Ellips True-AI?

Here's what it means for you:

✅ Maximum returns, less waste, less labour. Powerful defect detection means more of your produce ends up in the right box, every run.

✅ Your operator's new best friend. Simpler settings, faster responses, time savings. Your operator delivers consistent results with confidence.

✅ A perfect match, every single delivery. Regardless of incoming batch quality, True-AI keeps your output exactly where your customers expect it.

The Global Produce & Floral Show 2026 : from grading to packing, all in one place


The Global Produce & Floral Show 2026 brings the global fresh produce industry to Orlando this year. Ellips Group is bringing the full line together in one place:

    • Elifab grading machines, for soft and small sized fruits such as blueberries, cherry tomatoes and cherries
    • Elisam grading machines, for medium sized fruits and vegetables such as potatoes, onions, apples, dates, kiwi, citrus, stone fruits, pomegranates and more
    • Ellips True-AI, the grading intelligence behind every decision on both machines
    • Mat Exakta weighing and packing machines, automating the final step for any format, while cutting labor and speeding up changeovers.


From grading to final pack, every part of the line is built to protect the same three things: quality, labor and volume. Whether you're looking for a complete new machine, an AI grading update, retrofitting your current machine, or adding automated packing to a setup you already trust, our specialists will be there to walk through it with you.

📍 Find us at booth 3523 | October 14-16, 2026



Don't have a ticket for The Global Produce & Floral Show yet?

Register now on the organization's official website



Do you want inspiration?

Scroll down to the relevant customer video based on your produce

1. Rivermaid - 🍒 Cherries
2. Starr Ranch - 🍏🍎Apples
3. Owyhee Produce  - 🧅 Onions
4. Rimon - 🌴 Dates
5. Wada Farms -🥔Potatoes
6. African Blue - 🫐Blueberries
7. Agrofrut  - 🍊🍋🍋‍🟩Citrus


When quality can't afford to slip

For premium markets, one bad batch can undo years of trust.

Rivermaid

🍒 Runs 2 Elifab cherry lines with a combined 60 lanes, processing well over 20 tons per hour without a single manual sorter, all while holding the same standard that's earned Rivermaid a reputation covering about 14% of the California cherry industry. True-AI catches the defects that matter most, grading every cherry against Rivermaid's brand promise of consistent quality since 2014. Automatic box fillers and inline hydrocoolers carry each batch straight through to packed and cooled without ever slowing down for a quality check by hand. 

Defects caught by True-AI: black rot, fresh cracks, cracks within the stem area and many more

 

Starr Ranch

🍏🍎 Spent 5 years testing suppliers before choosing Elisam, because internal quality grading was the one thing no other system could match. Different customers demand different specs, and Starr Ranch needed a system flexible enough to adjust grading criteria to each one without sacrificing consistency. Ten months in, they hadn't broken a single cup on the sorter, and had already doubled their capacity on the line. 

Defects caught by True-AI: stem bowl cracks, russet, pressure marks and many more

 


When the labor just isn't there

 Skilled labor is getting harder to find, and harder to keep. 


Owyhee Produce

🧅Runs a high-capacity Elisam onion grader at 36 to 42 tons per hour, and cut finish sorters from 2 per line to 1, reducing labor needs by 4 to 5 people across the operation. That efficiency didn't come at the cost of quality: shipping over 3 million bags a year with virtually no complaints, at roughly 99.9% accuracy across 4,000 loads. Where lots used to get bounced back and forth to match customer specs, operators now just adjust settings and let the machine do the rest, turning even average lots into retail-ready product. That consistency is what's grown their market share: customers pay more, and reward Owyhee with more loads, once they know sizing and quality won't vary shipment to shipment. 

 Defects caught by True-AI: fusarium, misshapen, root tear and many more


Rimon

🌴Took it a step further. Handling close to 12,000 tons of Medjool dates a season from over 100 growers in Israel, they've invested in three Elisam graders over the past nine years, each one pushing further toward full automation. Their newest line runs with automatic fillers. A breakthrough eliminating the need for human intervention in the sorting process. For a labor-challenged industry, it is nothing less than a game changer, and it's helped keep grading deviations to a minimum across an entire season. 

Defects caught by True-AI: all severities of loose skin, black mold, moisture levels and yellow cap, even on multi-colored dates.



Wada Farms

🥔Cut labor tied to manual sizing and sorting by 75%. Within the first 30 days, they'd already hit the throughput rate they'd originally set as a year-end goal, going on to increase grading capacity by over 20% in that same first year, surpassing their own ROI objectives before month twelve even arrived. Sorting potatoes for 8, 10 or 12 hours a day is exactly the kind of focus that's hard for people to sustain and easy for the system to hold, meeting strict market requirements on sizing and quality that used to slip through mechanical sizing and manual sorting. 

Defects caught by True-AI: wireworm, compression bruising, mechanical damage and many more.

 

 


When volume targets keep growing

 Growth only counts if your grading line can actually keep up with it. 


African Blue

🫐Is aiming to double blueberry production within five years in Morocco. A 12-lane Elifab grader lets them process up to 4 tons an hour. It removes soft fruit and preserves bloom, adapting its settings as variety and season stage change. Mat Exakta fillers then let them switch between punnets, clamshells and buckets at speed to meet each customer's format. After a strong first year, African Blue has already ordered a second line to replace more manual sorting and grow capacity further.

Defects caught by True-AI: dehydration (shrivel), cracks, stem tears, mold and many more

 

Agrofrut Hellas

🍊🍋🍋‍🟩 One of Greece's largest citrus exporters, was facing an increasingly unstable seasonal labor market just as export customers demanded tighter consistency across varieties. Their Elisam grader now runs at over 40 tons per hour across oranges, lemons and limes, catching clear rot, scarring, punctures and stem defects without the grading accuracy dropping as volume climbs, even when labor availability is unpredictable.

Defects caught by True-AI: clear rot, scarring, punctures and many more

 

 

What's different in True-AI this season?

True-AI learns from every season. It continuously improves using real-world data from different seasons, varieties and growing conditions worldwide, and every new measurement increases grading accuracy across all installations.

Feedback makes it better too. Feedback on rare defects, seasonal variations and changing market requirements is directly integrated into development. The more it's used, the smarter it gets, backed by a dedicated team of 60+ vision specialists who continuously refine the detection models to keep grading performance consistently high.

Do you want to know what's better or different for your fruit or vegetable?
Visit us and you can talk with a specialist about your produce directly.


See it for yourself in Orlando

If you're wondering whether your current setup can still hold quality, labor and volume together, or if any of the pressures above sound familiar, bring it to Booth 3523
Book a slot in advance so we can make sure the right person is free to meet you.

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We'll also be at these events in the coming months:

See you in Orlando.
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