Every potato and onion 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. At PotatoEurope 2026, Ellips will show how leading growers and packers are already doing exactly that with Ellips True-AI.
Trusted by leading potato and onion growers worldwide
- 85+ potato grading machines
- 55+ onion grading machines
- 700+ grading lanes combined
Customers across Europe, North America and Australia, including Wada Farms, Wilhelm Weyers, Owyhee Produce, Bland Farms, Stourgarden, Zerella Fresh, Maatschap Roorda and many others. 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.
Ellips CleanFlow Pre-Sorter
Solutions for different grading challenges
- Labor shortages: Reduce labor dependency with fully automated, hands-free sorting on every machine.
- Meeting quality demands: Deliver consistent, premium-grade quality that commands better prices on every machine.
- Capacity targets: Maximize throughput to hit volume targets and meet tight delivery deadlines on every machine.
- Internal defects: See the unseen in every potato and onion with Ellips Light Transmittance technology.
- Switching between potatoes and onions: Elisam CombiGrader, one machine for both crops.
- Stones, clods and severe defects: CleanFlow Pre-Sorter, remove problems before they reach your storage or grading line.
- Seed or unwashed potatoes: GeJo Smart Grader EVO, grading straight from the field.
PotatoEurope 2026: five ways to upgrade your grading line
PotatoEurope brings the potato and onion industry together in Springe, Germany. This year, Ellips is bringing five solutions to the field.
- Elisam potato grading machine (IMPROVED), the most powerful grading machine for potatoes, high-capacity and fully automated to reduce labor dependence, catching internal and external defects with Ellips True-AI to deliver consistent, premium-grade quality that commands better prices.
- Elisam onion grading machine (IMPROVED), the leading AI grader for onions, high-capacity and fully automated to reduce labor dependence, catching internal and external defects with Ellips True-AI to deliver quality so consistent, customers can't resist.
- Elisam CombiGrader for Potatoes-Onions (NEW), one compact machine powered by Ellips True-AI that switches effortlessly between potato and onion grading, with ROI within 6 months.
- CleanFlow Pre-Sorter (NEW), powered by Ellips True-AI, removes stones, clods and extreme defects before they reach storage or the grading line, cutting manual pre-sorting labor by up to 80%.
- GeJo Smart Grader EVO (IMPROVED), powered by Ellips True-AI, for unwashed and seed potatoes straight from the field, grading on both size and quality, with sizing accurate to the tenth of a millimeter.
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Wada Farms hits ROI objectives in one year with AI potato grading technology
Large or small, industry or farm, Ellips offers solutions for different grading requirements. These include grading washed potatoes for industry, onions on a dedicated line, seed or unwashed potatoes straight from the field, switching between potatoes and onions on one grading line, and pre-sorting stones and clods before they reach storage or grading. Ellips specialists will be available to guide visitors through the solutions.
Ellips will be at Stand D12 | September 9–10
