As you evaluate bakery manufacturing equipment for the production of popped chips, you will find what you need at Reading Bakery Systems (RBS).
RBS, long-time global leaders in the snack food industry, manufactures technologically advanced commercial bakery equipment, including Exact continuous mixing equipment, which accurately delivers dough to your snack production line, and the world’s most advanced commercial oven systems by Thomas L. Green and Reading Pretzel, which are engineered to help customers around the globe meet their snack production demands.
Popped Snack Systems
RBS and Incomec, a Belgium-based manufacturer of popping/puffing equipment, have partnered to supply customers in the U.S. and Canada with specialized popped snack equipment.
RBS supplies the required auxiliary equipment, including conveyors, feeders, and seasoners, and provides sales support, installation and technical support for the Popped Snack Systems.
Incomec supplies a Pellex C+ or Cerex Processor depending on the final product you wish to produce. The Popped Snack line is also scalable, so processors can always be added to your line as your business grows.
- Pellex C+Processor: The Pellex C+ Processor produces light, crunchy chip products. It is capable of converting micropellets and dry ingredients with high free starch levels, such as broken rice, corn grits and potato-based materials, into a crunchy and wavy chip.
- Cerex Processor: The Cerex Processor is a grain processor that is designed to convert untreated grain, pellets and cereal blends with high free starch levels into unique popped products. It creates puffed rice cakes, cracker and biscuit type products of varying sizes that can be produced with quick and simple changes of the forming dies.
Popped Snack Process
- Ingredients are fed through a hopper, volumetrically metered and introduced by a feed-slide into a heated mould.
- The Processor pressurizes the ingredients for a short period of time. This pressurization allows the ingredient moisture to be converted into steam, resulting in expansion, or popping.
- The mould is opened slightly, allowing the ingredients to expand and form the product.
- The finished products are ejected onto a conveyor, which leads them to a Cleaning Drum to remove unpopped ingredients and fines and then on to flavoring and packaging.
Next Steps
If you are interested in learning how our equipment and innovative techniques can improve productivity in your operation, you can conduct confidential trials in the RBS Science & Innovation Center in Sinking Spring, Pennsylvania, and duplicate conditions you might encounter in full-scale production.
As leading global suppliers of state-of-the-art snack production equipment, Reading Bakery Systems can meet your needs for bakery manufacturing equipment for the production of popped chips. Call us at (01) 610-693-5816 or contact us online to learn more.