Reading Bakery Systems has been at the forefront of commercial baking equipment and technology for more than 125 years. We provide complete automated bakery solutions.
Headquartered in Robesonia, Pennsylvania, Reading Bakery Systems (RBS) offers state-of-the-art solutions to customers in the global food and snack industries, providing reliable and efficient systems for the production of cookies, crackers, biscuits, pretzels, baked potato chips, bread snacks, baked crisps, pet treats and more.
Complete Turnkey Systems
RBS manufactures and installs turnkey production systems with the latest technology to help your bakery efficiently and profitably produce baked snacks. Our systems create extruded, wirecut, sheeted and rotary moulded products and have the flexibility to integrate batch or continuous mixing.
The modern, high volume Cracker System, for example, enables you to create straight sheeted, dual sheeted and laminated crackers. Sheeting systems can range from 600mm to 1.5m in width, and production volumes range from 200-5500 kg/hr depending on oven length, width and product type.
The Multi-Crisp Baked Snack System enables you to produce a variety of wheat, potato, multi-grain and corn masa flour crisps on one flexible system. The system can produce between 250-1000 kg/hr of finished product, depending on the number of oven sections after the dough sheeting equipment.
Mixing Solutions
To simplify your mixing processes and eliminate the undesirable dough variations caused by batch mixing, consider Exact Mixing Continuous Mixing technology from RBS.
The Exact Mixing MX Continuous Mixer, for example, is our most versatile mixer and is well suited for a wide range of products including pizza, cookies, snacks, batters, icings, and pastes. It is also an ideal first stage mixer for processes that require creme up and pre-blend stages.
Another excellent mixer is the Exact Mixing HDX Continuous Mixer, the ideal choice for ultra-high absorption doughs, such as buns, breads, rolls, English muffins and similar products.
Dough Forming Solutions
The Reading Pretzel Low Pressure Extruder offers exceptional flexibility, enabling you to create a variety of pretzel shapes, sticks, braids, filled sticks and bread snacks on one production line. Product changeover is as simple as exchanging one compression head and die for another one with a different shape.
For rotary moulded cookies, the Thomas L. Green Rotary Moulder efficiently produces high definition, 3-D shapes by pressing dough into a die roll. The interchangeable engraved brass die roll can be supplied with segmented rings for simultaneous, multi-shape production.
The Thomas L. Green Sheeter generates a consistent dough sheet, and Gauging Stations ensure a gentle reduction in sheet thickness prior to shape forming. Scrapless geometric shapes and distinct shapes can be formed by the Rotary Cutting Station.
Baking & Drying Solutions
Customers in the global biscuit, cookie and cracker industry have trusted the Thomas L. Green PRISM OVEN for more than a century. The flexible single-pass baking platform offers Direct Gas Fired (DGF) Zones, Emithermic (Radiant / Convection) Zones and Convection Zones and is designed to improve consistency and uniform quality, color, taste and texture.
The Reading Pretzel SPECTRUM OVEN® offers the same flexibility as the PRISM OVEN for baking pretzels, bread snacks, crisps and potato snacks, with a number of different combinations of heat transfer zones in one modular design. Add a separate, optional Multi-Pass Dryer to increase oven speed, production throughput and process control.
Whether you need automated commercial bakery equipment or a complete turnkey system, contact Reading Bakery Systems at (01) 610-693-5816, or click here to learn more about our state-of-the-art products.