Engineering Research
Engineering Research
Our engineering team looks for innovate approaches to addressing supply chain challenges and enhancing fruit performance.
The team uses NIR technology to gain rapid and non-destructive insights into the internal characteristics of fruit and vegetables, such as Dry matter and sugar content. The team is also exploring the use of AI learning to help improve the efficiency and accuracy of fruit investigation activities.
Trialing new packaging formats to reduce reliance on plastics in the kiwifruit supply chain
Testing and proving the efficacy of non-destructive technologies for measuring kiwifruit quality metrics such as dry matter, brix and firmness
Using machine learning to characterise the flesh colour of kiwifruit