Riviera Farms: Technology Expression of Interest – Automation & Advanced Manufacturing Solutions for Regional Vegetable Processing Facility
Opportunity for
- Technology providers, innovators, robotics companies, automation specialists, AI solution developers, and advanced manufacturing partners who can help identify practical and commercially viable solutions for modernising processing operations.
Opportunity description
Riviera Farms is a family-owned Australian horticulture business, with a history dating back to the 1880s. The company grows, packs and distributes a wide range of fresh vegetables and salad products, controlling its supply chain from nursery through to delivery. Operating across multiple growing regions and producing more than 7,000 tonnes of fresh produce annually, Riviera Farms has built a reputation for consistent quality, innovation and sustainable production practices.
Riviera Farms is progressing the redevelopment, reactivation and expansion of the Maffra Regional Processing Facility, a vegetable processing, value-adding, and advanced food manufacturing hub in Maffra Victoria.
The project aims to transform a traditional labour-intensive processing operation into a highly efficient, scalable, and technology-enabled facility capable of supporting future growth, improved productivity, and greater regional economic resilience.
Current opportunity
As part of this redevelopment, we are seeking engagement with technology providers, innovators, robotics companies, automation specialists, AI solution developers, and advanced manufacturing partners who can help identify practical and commercially viable solutions for modernising processing operations.
We are especially interested in ideas that may not yet be widely adopted in Australian horticulture but have demonstrated success in adjacent sectors such as food manufacturing, logistics, warehousing, or industrial processing. Our objective is not to replace labour, but to build a future-ready regional processing model that combines workforce capability with advanced technology to improve competitiveness, resilience, and long-term sustainability. We welcome innovative thinking and encourage providers to share solutions that may challenge conventional processing models.
We are interested in emerging and proven technologies that can improve efficiency, throughput, quality control, labour productivity, traceability, and workplace safety across the processing chain. Areas of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Robotics and automated material handling
- AI-enabled grading, sorting, and quality control
- Optical inspection and defect detection
- Automated processing and preparation systems
- Packaging and palletising automation
- Smart logistics and autonomous movement systems
- IoT monitoring, predictive maintenance, and process analytics
- Energy, resource, and waste optimisation technologies
- Food safety, traceability, and compliance systems
- Flexible solutions suited to seasonal production variability
Solutions may involve full automation, partial automation, robotic assistance, retrofit systems, software layers, or modular technologies that can be deployed in stages. The facility processes horticultural produce with seasonal fluctuations in throughput, labour demand, and product mix. Accordingly, we are particularly interested in technologies that perform effectively in wet, washdown and food-grade environments.
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Opportunity background
We welcome engagement from organisations ranging from early-stage innovators to established commercial providers.
We are open to:
- Concept discussions and technology scoping
- Pilot projects or proof-of-concept trials
- Feasibility assessments
- Budgetary quotations / indicative pricing
- Strategic partnerships or co-development opportunities