If you run an orchard in Spain, Italy, Greece, Portugal or Turkey, the two or three weeks of harvest decide your whole season. A torn net at 6 a.m. on picking day is not a small problem — olives roll into the soil, pickers slow down, and cracked fruit downgrades your oil or table-olive price.
Short answer: choose a knitted olive harvest net made from 100% virgin HDPE with UV stabilization, sized to cover the full drip line of your trees with side overlap, and heavy enough in GSM to stay flat under a full load of wet olives without tearing. Then confirm your supplier can deliver on time: our factory MOQ is 2 tons, standard lead time is 25–35 days after deposit, and a 40HQ container loads 14–15 tons. The five checks below are what our export customers run through before they place a bulk order.
Ground sheets are fine for drying walnuts in a yard. Under production olive trees they fail three ways: they slide on slopes, they pool rainwater, and their smooth surface lets olives bounce and roll away from the collection area. A knitted HDPE harvest net is different — the knit grips the soil slightly, water drains through instead of pooling, and olives stay where they fall.
Knitted netting also folds and rolls far more compactly than a PVC tarpaulin of the same area, which matters when you are loading a container. From our Changzhou factory, one 40HQ carries roughly 14–15 tons of rolled netting, enough to cover serious hectarage depending on your row spacing.
Recycled HDPE is cheaper per roll, but for a product that lives outdoors under Mediterranean or Australian sun for weeks every harvest, it is a false economy. Recycled resin varies in melt flow and UV resistance from batch to batch, so nets get brittle at different rates — and the first weak panel usually fails exactly where your oldest trees, and your biggest harvest, are.
Our Changzhou factory runs 100% virgin HDPE olive harvest net with UV stabilization. One Australian bird-netting buyer put it plainly after seven years of repeat orders: professional service that saves real time at harvest. That consistency — same resin, same knit, same edge finishing year after year — is what a harvest net has to deliver, because you will roll and unroll the same nets for many seasons.
Gram weight decides whether a net lies flat under a load of olives or lifts in the wind. Our olive harvest nets are knitted at 85, 90, 95 and 100 g/m² — four weights that let you match tree size, slope and how your crew handles the net on the ground.
| GSM | What it suits |
|---|---|
| 85 g/m² | Lighter handling, flatter ground, smaller crews |
| 90 g/m² | General orchard harvest |
| 95 g/m² | Windier ridges and steeper blocks |
| 100 g/m² | Heaviest loads, roughest ground, longest reuse |
Whatever weight you choose, test the edge first. The center of a knit rarely fails first; the border fails after the third or fourth harvest, where the net is dragged over stones and hooked onto trailer corners. Ask how the border is reinforced before you compare prices.
The right width is not the canopy width in a catalogue photo. Walk your rows with a tape:
Our olive nets are knitted in eight standard sizes from 3×6 m up to 12×12 m, with custom sizes available. Standard lead time for made-to-order netting is 25–35 days after deposit. If your harvest window is fixed — and in olive growing it always is — work backwards from October or November and place the order with at least one container of margin.
A harvest net is a handling product as much as a covering product. It will be dragged, folded, stacked in a barn all year, then dragged again. Practical checks before ordering:
A net is a commodity until the week you need it. The questions that actually separate suppliers:
On flat ground, lay nets end to end along the row with overlaps running downhill. On slopes, start at the top of the block and let gravity help olives roll toward the collection edge. After vibration or hand picking, gather by pulling two corners toward each other to form a funnel, then pour into crates or the trailer. Repair any border tears with HDPE twine immediately after harvest — a five-minute fix in January saves a lost panel in October. For the full laying method, see our guide to laying olive harvest netting, and for mechanical harvesting read our olive net sizes guide.
Our MOQ is 2 tons per specification. For warning and barrier nets the MOQ is 5 tons. A trial order at MOQ is a practical way to test edges and GSM on your own ground before moving to a 40HQ load of 14–15 tons.
Standard lead time is 25–35 days after deposit, depending on quantity and specification. We confirm an exact schedule when you send your order details, so you can line arrival up with your harvest window.
Yes. Standard samples are free and you pay the freight only. We recommend testing the sample the way you will actually use it: drag it over your soil, load it with fruit, and roll it up wet.
Yes. We support custom GSM, width, mesh size, color, shape, length and packaging, with OEM/ODM and private labeling for brands and distributors.
Yes — we knit eleven product lines in one factory, so hail net for spring storms, bird net for the weeks before harvest and shade net for nurseries can all come in the same container program with consistent quality.
Buy 100% virgin HDPE, match GSM to your ground and crew, measure the drip line plus 30–50 cm of overlap per side, and check the edge finishing before the price. Tell us your tree spacing and block size and we will spec the right net and lead time.
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