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title: Quality up, labor down, volume up. Meet us at Fruit Logistica Asia 2026
description: Are you attending Fruit Logistica Asia in Hong Kong? Discover how AI is transforming grading, improving quality, increasing capacity and cutting labor.
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# [Quality up, labor down, volume up. Meet us at Fruit Logistica Asia 2026](https://insights.ellips.com/events/quality-up-labor-down-volume-up.-meet-us-at-fruit-logistica-asia-2026)

 Written by [Levi Bakker](https://insights.ellips.com/events/author/levi-bakker) | Aug 3, 2026, 7:19:17 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 [Asia Fruit Logistica 2026](https://www.asiafruitlogistica.com/), 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. Their return on investment keeps going up across the board. 

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

👉 **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.

## Asia Fruit Logistica 2026: from grading to packing, all in one place

Fruit Logistica Asia brings the global fresh produce industry to Hong Kong every year. This year we're bringing the full line together in one place:

- [**Elifab grading machines**](https://ellips.com/grading-solutions/elifab-grading-machine/), for soft and small sized fruits such as blueberries, cherry tomatoes and cherries
- [**Elisam grading machines**](https://ellips.com/grading-solutions/elisam-grading-machine/), for medium sized fruits and vegetables such as potatoes, onions, apples, dates, kiwi, citrus, stone fruits and more
- [**Ellips True-AI**](https://ellips.com/grading-solutions/artificial-intelligence-grading-technology/), 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 5T42, Hall 5 | September 2–4, 2026**

### **Don't have a ticket for** Fruit Logistica Asia

### **yet?**

[Register now on the organization's official website](https://www.asiafruitlogistica.com/)

### **Do you want inspiration?**

Scroll down to the relevant customer video based on your produce

1\. Vidrio Fruits - 🍒 Cherries  
2\. Elbe Obst - 🍏🍎Apples  
3\. Stourgarden - 🧅 Onions  
4\. Rimon - 🌴 Dates  
5\. Wilhelm Weyers -🥔Potatoes  
6\. African Blue - 🫐Blueberries  
7\. Agrofrut Hellas - 🍊🍋🍋‍🟩Citrus

### When quality can't afford to slip

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

**Vidrio Fruits**

🍒 Runs the largest cherry grading project in Europe: a 48-lane Elifab line processing around 24,000 tons a year. Their record stands at zero product quality claims. Mat Exakta then packs the graded cherries into punnets, clamshells and buckets at high speed to match each customer's format. It's all part of how they deliver for the world's most demanding cherry markets.

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

 

### Elbe Obst

🍏🍎 One of Germany's largest apple producers, faced a subtler version of the same problem: defects hiding in the blossom area, along with pressure marks and stem bowl cracks, easy to miss until a customer finds them first. Running two six-lane Elisam graders across close to 100 varieties, they now catch those defects consistently, and the added throughput helps them hit tight delivery windows even during peak demand.

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.** 

### Stourgarden

🧅A third-generation UK onion packhouse, used to need 16 people to run its grading line, and still couldn't keep pace when fusarium showed up in a crop. Today the line runs with six people, capacity has doubled to 200 tons a day, and the labor bill is down by roughly 40%. Customer complaints tied to internal defects have dropped sharply too, and the team can now switch size bands and specs for different retailers in a few clicks instead of a lengthy manual reset.

 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.

### **Wilhelm Weyers**

[🥔](https://emojipedia.org/potato/)A German potato and onion wholesaler based in Weeze, was the first in the potato world to grade on internal quality, not just what shows on the skin. Their Elisam machine uses light transmission technology to look straight through each potato, catching internal defects that used to mean cutting one open to find. In a bad season, hand-sorting would have needed eight to ten people on the line. Reliable workers are only getting harder to find, and the machine now does that job on its own.

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 Hong Kong

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 5T42, Hall 5.**  
Book a slot in advance so we can make sure the right person is free to meet you.

[**Book a demo with us →**](https://info.ellips.com/en/book-demo)

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

- <https://www.euroasiainterfresh.com/>[Interfresh Eurasia](https://www.euroasiainterfresh.com/) – Izmir, Türkiye | September 8–10
- <https://www.potatoeurope.de/en/>[Potato Europe](https://www.potatoeurope.de/en/) – Springe (near Hannover), Germany | September 9–10
- <https://www.blueberriesconsulting.com/>[Blueberry Consulting Seminar](https://www.blueberriesconsulting.com/)– Tangier, Morocco | September 16
- [Fruit Attraction](https://www.ifema.es/en/fruit-attraction) - Madrid, Spain | October 6–8
- <https://www.freshproduce.com/events/the-global-produce-and-floral-show/>[Global Produce & Floral Show](https://www.freshproduce.com/events/the-global-produce-and-floral-show/) – Orlando, Florida | October 14–16
- <https://www.interpom.be/nl/>[Interpom](https://www.interpom.be/nl/) – Kortrijk, Belgium | November 29 – December 1

See you in Hong Kong.

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