Reading Bakery Systems (RBS) is a world leader in manufacturing production line equipment for sheeted snacks that will help keep your bakery competitive.
Headquartered in Robesonia, PA, Reading Bakery Systems designs, engineers, and manufactures state-of-the-art equipment for producing baked potato chips, pretzels, bread snacks, baked crisps, biscuits, cookies, crackers, pet treats, and more. Our equipment can help you reduce labor, cut costs, and produce consistent, high-quality products.
Thomas L. Green Sheeting Innovations
Crucial for automated packaging systems after the oven, our Thomas L. Green dough sheeters utilize two, three, or four rolls to compress dough into hole-free sheets with uniform density and consistent characteristics. Sheeters can also develop the gluten in the dough and make it tougher.
Our sheeters prepare the dough for forming, lamination, and further reduction. Consistent sheet thickness is controlled by the distance between the rolls that compress the dough (which can be adjusted).
The 2-Roll Sheeter has two stainless steel rolls that rotate toward one another and draw raw dough into a single sheet with consistent thickness. The stainless steel rolls are manufactured to precise tolerances of concentricity to maintain consistent dough sheet formation.
The 3-Roll Sheeter has two forcing rolls that draw the dough into the pressurized cavity between the three rolls. Then the dough is compacted and discharged as a continuous sheet.
The 4-Roll Sheeter has two upper forcing rolls that draw the dough into the pressurized cavity between the four rolls. The two lower rolls are smooth and maintain a constant dough density, creating a smooth dough sheet.
The Fabricated Chip Sheeter is a forming machine that sheets and cuts shapes from potato doughs made from dry premixes, potato flakes, whole grains, corn, and other formulations. The dough is delivered to a hopper above two large-diameter, solid core, water-cooled sheeting rolls. In a single pass, the dough is reduced and sheeted to a thickness of 0.7mm (.027”). Cut shapes are delivered directly into an oven or fryer before seasoning and packaging.
Test Your Products & Processes
If you don’t know which sheeting equipment is suitable for your snack products, we encourage you to visit the RBS Science & Innovation Center in Sinking Spring, PA. Our team can help you decide.
Customers work with our team to test machinery and processing techniques; research innovations in mixing, forming, baking, and drying that can improve profitability; develop new products; validate different ingredients and test ingredient changes, and produce market samples for testing.
If you are interested in bakery manufacturing equipment for the production of sheeted snacks, contact us at (01) 610-693-5816 to explore our wide range of commercial equipment.