If you are interested in bakery manufacturing equipment for the production of popped snacks, Reading Bakery Systems can help you customize a system that meets your unique needs.
Reading Bakery Systems (RBS), headquartered in Robesonia, Pennsylvania, USA, offers high-quality solutions to customers in the global food and snack industries, providing reliable and efficient systems for the production of granola bars, cookies, crackers, biscuits, pretzels, baked potato chips, bread snacks, baked crisps, pet treats and more.
Popped Snack Systems
RBS and Incomec, a Belgium-based popping/puffing equipment manufacturer, 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 can convert 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 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.
The 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 time. This pressurization converts the ingredient moisture 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, leading them to a Cleaning Drum to remove unpopped ingredients and fines and then to flavoring and packaging.
Test Your Products & Processes
Reading Bakery Systems is a world-leading bakery equipment manufacturer, providing innovative process solutions and support for the snack food industry.
Our brands – Thomas L. Green, Reading Pretzel, Exact Mixing, and Reading Thermal – offer continuous mixing solutions, production lines capable of producing a wide range of snack products, and oven profiling and consulting services.
We encourage you to visit with our team at the RBS Science & Innovation Center in Sinking Spring, Pennsylvania, to test your products and processes on our equipment and determine which equipment may be suitable for your products.
Whether you are new to the production of popped snacks or a veteran snack food manufacturer, better baking begins with manufacturing equipment from Reading Bakery Systems. Get in touch with us at (01) 610-693-5816, or click here to explore our equipment.