Ellips Brings True-AI Grading and 120 t/h CleanFlow to Global Produce Show in Orlando
Dutch grading technology specialist Ellips will exhibit its True-AI optical grading, Elisam platform and CleanFlow bulk handling system at the Global Produce & Floral Show 2026 in Orlando, citing installations that cut manual labor by up to 80% and pay back within six months.
Ellips, the Dutch manufacturer of optical grading and sorting technology, will present its potato and onion solutions at the Global Produce & Floral Show (GPFS) 2026 in Orlando, Florida, where the expo runs 16–17 October. The company will be at booth 3523, showcasing its True-AI grading technology, the Elisam grading platform and the CleanFlow gentle bulk-handling system, according to its pre-show announcement on 4 October.
The company arrives with substantial installed capacity behind it: Ellips reports more than 260 customers and over 1,600 lines installed worldwide, including 85-plus potato machines and 55-plus onion machines. Its presentation to the North American market leans on quantified case results from existing installations.
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For potatoes, the headline figures come from recent U.S. projects. At Owyhee Produce, an Ellips line handles 36–42 tonnes per hour, replacing four to five sorters, and grades around three million bags per year at approximately 99.9% accuracy, according to the company. At Wada Farms, the installation reduced labor requirements by 75% and increased throughput capacity by 20% within a year of operation.
The CleanFlow system is pitched at the receiving end of the line: it handles up to 120 tonnes per hour of bulk product with gentle transfer between stages, and the company says it eliminates up to 80% of manual pre-sorting work. Its CombiGrader configuration — combining grading functions in a compact footprint — is marketed with a return-on-investment claim of six months or less at throughputs around 15 tonnes per hour.
True-AI is the company’s deep-learning grading layer, which detects external and internal defects that rule-based camera systems miss — including internal discoloration and subtle surface blemishes — by training on large image datasets rather than fixed thresholds. The technology has become the competitive frontier in the grading sector, with all major manufacturers racing to prove defect-detection rates on potatoes and onions.
The Orlando show is the largest produce trade event in North America, and grading equipment has become a bigger part of its floor as labor scarcity squeezes packers. With U.S. potato storage and packing operations heading into the winter shipping season — and the industry expecting the smallest U.S. potato crop in 16 years, per our separate coverage — packers are under pressure to extract maximum packout from every bin, which is precisely the efficiency argument Ellips is bringing to booth 3523.
Performance figures cited are from the company’s own announcement and customer case materials; independent verification of the accuracy and labor-saving claims was not part of the release.
The Ellips presence in Orlando also reflects where the grading-technology battle is being fought hardest right now: North American potato and onion packers are under simultaneous pressure from labor scarcity, retailer quality specifications and shrinking grower margins, and they are the buyers most willing to pay for automation that removes people from the line. The company’s installed base of 85-plus potato machines gives it reference sites in exactly the regions those buyers can visit — and in equipment sales, a working line two states away sells more effectively than any booth demonstration.
