Elifab Cherry tomato grading machine

Next-gen cherry tomato grading machine

Turn every cherry tomato harvest into maximum value
  • Maximize throughput to hit volume targets and meet tight delivery deadlines
  • Reduce labor dependency with fully automated, hands-free sorting
  • Deliver consistent, premium-grade quality that command better prices

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Elifab Cherry Tomato grading machine
powered by Ellips technology

Cherry tomato grading machine:
This is how you unlock the full potential of every harvest.

Do you want to increase your grading capacity while tackling challenges like labor shortages and inconsistent quality? This AI-powered cherry tomato grading machine delivers the most gentle treatment of every cherry tomato, while achieving the highest throughput per sorting lane. You stay in full control, protecting your quality standards and boosting your profits, season after season.

Maximize throughput with less labor


Every cherry tomato counts and every minute of grading matters. The Elifab cherry tomato grading machine is designed to sort millions of cherries tomatoes at exceptional speed without damaging the fruit. With fully automated grading, your packhouse maximizes throughput, maintains consistent quality and significantly reduces labor dependency.

 

Cherry Tomato grading machine throughput

Consistent, market-leading quality that sells itself


Extract the most value from every batch and maintain your reputation for quality with superior accuracy. High-tech cameras capture 30 images for every single cherry tomato, resulting in near-perfect size, color separation, brix detection (sweetness) and highly accurate sorting of defects such as softness, stem, rot, splits, cell breakdown, cuts and stink bug marks. It also allows you to sort cherry tomatoes into different classes. Great for meeting premium, local and export demands.

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Compact design that saves space and money

The Elifab AI cherry tomato sorting machine is designed with a compact footprint, almost half the size of many competitors. This helps minimize your initial investment in packhouse space and construction. With a smaller system volume, you’ll also reduce daily refrigeration needs, lowering both energy consumption and operational costs.

Extract max value from every cherry tomato


When it comes to growing cherry tomatoes, you’re the expert. And when it comes to growing revenue, we know how to help. With our world-class Ellips TrueSort grading software and the Elifab cherry tomato grading machine, you’ll boost yields, cut waste and meet customer demands like longer shelf life or larger cherry tomatoes. Helping you stand out and accelerate your return on investment.

Cherry tomato grader

Advanced cherry tomato grading

Accurate quality checks

You need cherry tomatoes that look good, taste good and can travel. The Elifab cherry AI grader, powered by Ellips TrueSort™ software, leads the industry in accurately detecting the most common defects and quality characteristics inside and out such as stem, rot, splits, brix (sweetness), cell breakdown, cuts, stink bug marks and more It also allows you to sort cherry tomatoes into different classes, helping you meet premium, local and export market demands.
Cherry tomato quality grading

A heavyweight in weighing

Even at incredibly fast speeds, the Elifab cherry tomato sorting machine is able to accurately weigh every cherry. It does this by weighing each one volumetrically using images from high-tech cameras. The Ellips TrueSort software also monitors the average product weight and capacity per hour and displays it on your visual dashboard.
Cherry tomato weight sorting

Next level measuring

From small to jumbo, the Elifab AI cherry tomato grader takes multiple diameter measurements to determine the size of every kind of cherry tomato. The cherry tomato rotates under the camera, so you’re able to measure the entire surface. Advanced algorithms of Ellips TrueSort then determine the shape of the product ensuring flat cherry tomatoes are sorted from those with a more rounded-shape.
Cherry tomato size sorting

Grade every color

The Elifab AI cherry tomato grader achieves precision color separation by using live feedback from its high-resolution cameras combined with TrueSort software. Together they’ll grade multiple color classes and make sure different shades of red, yellow, and green cherry tomatoes can easily be sorted.
Cherry tomato color sorting

Stay in full control

Ellips TrueSort’s™ easy-to-use dashboard gives real-time data such as the percentage of defective cherry tomatoes, the amount of waste and the distribution of different quality aspects for each batch. This lets you make accurate operational decisions on-to-go whilst also giving you the freedom to incorporate data from your sorting process into dashboards and ERP systems.

End-to-end traceability

Always knowing where your cherry tomatoes are located, from infeed to packaging, is crucial to guaranteeing quality and safety. With end-to-end traceability, you can optimize your operating efficiency, analyze yields, and reduce food waste. Each package is labeled and can be tracked and traced back to the original grower and the field it came from.
Cherry tomato processing equipment
  • Accurate quality checks

    You need cherry tomatoes that look good, taste good and can travel. The Elifab cherry AI grader, powered by Ellips TrueSort™ software, leads the industry in accurately detecting the most common defects and quality characteristics inside and out such as stem, rot, splits, brix (sweetness), cell breakdown, cuts, stink bug marks and more It also allows you to sort cherry tomatoes into different classes, helping you meet premium, local and export market demands.

  • A heavyweight in weighing

    Even at incredibly fast speeds, the Elifab cherry tomato sorting machine is able to accurately weigh every cherry. It does this by weighing each one volumetrically using images from high-tech cameras. The Ellips TrueSort software also monitors the average product weight and capacity per hour and displays it on your visual dashboard.

  • Next level measuring

    From small to jumbo, the Elifab AI cherry tomato grader takes multiple diameter measurements to determine the size of every kind of cherry tomato. The cherry tomato rotates under the camera, so you’re able to measure the entire surface. Advanced algorithms of Ellips TrueSort then determine the shape of the product ensuring flat cherry tomatoes are sorted from those with a more rounded-shape.

  • Grade every color

    The Elifab AI cherry tomato grader achieves precision color separation by using live feedback from its high-resolution cameras combined with TrueSort software. Together they’ll grade multiple color classes and make sure different shades of red, yellow, and green cherry tomatoes can easily be sorted.

  • Stay in full control

    Ellips TrueSort’s™ easy-to-use dashboard gives real-time data such as the percentage of defective cherry tomatoes, the amount of waste and the distribution of different quality aspects for each batch. This lets you make accurate operational decisions on-to-go whilst also giving you the freedom to incorporate data from your sorting process into dashboards and ERP systems.

  • End-to-end traceability

    Always knowing where your cherry tomatoes are located, from infeed to packaging, is crucial to guaranteeing quality and safety. With end-to-end traceability, you can optimize your operating efficiency, analyze yields, and reduce food waste. Each package is labeled and can be tracked and traced back to the original grower and the field it came from.

Elifab Cherry Tomato sorting machine


Trusted by world’s best growers and packers, the Elifab Cherry Tomato grading machine is an industry-leading solution. Not only are you guaranteed the lowest total cost of ownership, but you’ll be able to stay at maximum speed to meet all delivery and quality needs.

  • Consistent quality at high speed
    Cherry tomato season is short, packhouse space is often limited and you want to process and pack your harvest to get it to your customers as quickly as possible. It’s why growers and packers trust the Elifab AI  cherry tomato sorting machine that combines incredible speed and accuracy, with delicate handling and huge capacity.
  • Delicate handling, even at top speed.
    Fast processing shouldn’t come at the expense of fruit. It’s why the Elifab cherry tomato grader uses our world-first, specially designed silicon curtains that reduce speed whilst keeping the fruit separated. Together with the lowest transfer height throughout the whole process, we have achieved the most delicate handling with little or no impact on your cherry tomatoes.
  • Cleverly designed to fit any packhouse
    World-class quality doesn’t have to mean giant machinery. By collaborating with customers in packhouses of all shapes and sizes, we designed the Elifab cherry tomato sorting machine to have the smallest footprint in the market. Its compact design allows for quick installation and makes the system easy to maintain and clean, while meeting strict food safety requirements.

 

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Cherry tomato grading and packing with the finest results.

It’s all fully integrated so your entire packhouse works as one


Working directly with hundreds of packhouses around the globe, we’ve fully integrated our Elifab cherry tomato grading machines into each individual facility. Together with our partners, we’ll do the same for you, ensuring your entire packhouse is optimized through seamlessly integrated cherry tomato processing machines. These machines connect multi-head weighers, bin tippers, washing and waxing machines, drying tunnels, palletizers and cherry tomato packing machine (packing tables and automated packaging). With Ellips Group, you’re fully covered with a one-stop shop solution for all your packhouse needs.

Cherry tomato grading and packing

Cherry tomato packing machine


With MatExakta cherry tomato packing machine, everything is taken care of with minimal human intervention. It’s an automatic weighing and packaging solution, that allows you to easily switch between different packaging materials such as cartons, plastic, paper pulp and forms like punnets, shakers, buckets, and clamshells. Whatever’s used, everything happens automatically and precisely, down to the lids being placed on the trays and labelling with the correct label.

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