Reading Bakery Systems is a company with more than 120 years of commercial baking experience and a reputation for pioneering R&D, legendary customer service, and the world’s most advanced industrial bakery equipment.
Reading Bakery Systems, headquartered in Robesonia, PA, serves snack food manufacturers around the globe. We offer a complete line of mixing, dough handling and forming, baking, drying, and supplemental equipment, as well as complete biscuit systems, cracker systems, bread snack systems, potato snack systems, pretzel systems, and control systems.
Continuous Mixing
Batch mixing can lack precision and lead to variations in dough, which negatively affects the consistency of your finished products.Even if the dough is perfect leaving the batch mixer, changes often occur to the dough while it awaits processing.Continuous Mixing solves these problems by providing a consistent, uniform dough stream to your production line at the same rate that it is being used.
The Exact MX Continuous Mixer is our most versatile mixer. It offers dough production rates from 50 to 2,000 kg/hour and is ideal for a wide range of products including cookies, snacks, pizza, batters, icings, and pastes. The Exact EX Continuous Mixer is well-suited for low-absorption, stiff, wheat-based doughs, such as for crackers, bagels, pretzels, sweet goods and pet treats, and the Exact HDX Continuous Mixer is ideal for ultra-high absorption doughs for buns, breads, rolls, English muffins or tortillas.
Dough Forming
Reading Bakery System’s Low Pressure Extruder allows 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 molded products, the Thomas L. Green Rotary Moulder efficiently produces high definition, three dimensional shapes by pressing dough into a die roll. The interchangeable die roll is made of engraved brass and can be supplied with segmented rings for simultaneous, multiple shape production.
For sheeted snacks, the Thomas L. Green Sheeter generates a consistent dough sheet, and the 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
The Thomas L. Green PRISM OVEN has been trusted in the biscuit, cookie and cracker industry for over 120 years. It is a flexible single-pass baking platform designed to enhance product consistency. Features include:
- Direct gas fired (DGF), convection, and Emithermic (radiant / convection) baking zones
- Repeatable control of time, temperature, humidity and type of heat transfer
- Better baking efficiency with uniform quality, color, taste and texture
The Reading Pretzel SPECTRUM OVEN® offers the same flexibility as the PRISM OVEN for baking pretzels, bread snacks, baked crisps and potato snacks. It features:
- Radiation, convection and conduction heat transfer options
- Separate heating zones for more precise control
- Repeatable control of time, temperature, humidity and type of heat transfer
- Stainless steel interior construction
A separate optional SPECTRUM Multi-Pass Dryer provides faster oven speeds, greater production throughput, and more process control. The Dryer efficiently reduces product core moistures, improving overall quality and storage characteristics.
A company with as much experience as Reading Bakery Systems has the ability to offer bakery equipment that meets your unique production goals, enhances the overall quality of your products, and optimizes your space. Get in touch with us today at (01) 610-693-5816.