When you are seeking a trusted manufacturer of commercial bakery mixing equipment, explore how Reading Bakery Systems can meet your unique requirements.
Reading Bakery Systems (RBS) is a long-time global leader in the snack food industry. We serve the biscuit, cookie, cracker, pretzel, potato chip, bread and bun, sweet goods, and pet treat industries. Our range of innovative equipment, expertise, pioneering R&D, and legendary customer service are unrivaled in the industry.
Continuous Mixing Solutions
Batch mixing may be the most common mixing method, but it can lack precision and lead to unwanted variations in your finished dough. Even if the dough was perfect when it left the batch mixer, changes often occur while the dough awaits processing. This is known as the “batch cycle.”
To solve this problem, Exact Continuous Mixers continuously meter ingredients directly into the mixing chamber to generate a continuous stream of mixed product at the exit of the mixer. The mixing may be done in stages to ensure all ingredients are properly incorporated.
The advantages of continuous mixing include:
- More precise delivery of raw materials to the mixer
- Improved consistency of weight, size, and texture
- Elimination of dough troughs
- Recipe control and repeatability
- Completely automated process
State-of-the-Art Continuous Mixers
Exact Mixing Continuous Mixing technology from RBS enables customers to simplify their mixing process and eliminate the undesirable dough variations caused by batch mixing. Models include (but are not limited to):
EX Continuous Mixer – The EX Continuous Mixer is ideal for wheat-based snacks such as sweet goods, crackers, pie crusts, pretzels, and pet treats and is also well suited for all but the lowest viscosity powder/liquid mixtures. It uniformly mixes doughs with a variety of moisture levels without generating excessive heat. This single-screw mixer offers dough production rates of 50 to 10,000 kg/hour.
HDX Continuous Mixer – The HDX Continuous Mixer is designed for manufacturing highly developed dough at low temperatures, such as hot dogs and hamburger buns, breads, hard rolls, English muffins, and tortillas, multi-grain products, and similar products. The high-development mixer provides uninterrupted and precise ingredient metering to the mixer and eliminates the chance of contamination because the dough is never exposed to the environment. It offers dough production rates of 1,500 to 10,000 kg/hour.
MX Continuous Mixer – The MX Continuous Mixer is a highly versatile twin-screw mixer suitable for a wide range of products, including cookies, snacks, batters, icings, pretzels, pizza, and pastes. It is also an ideal first-stage mixer for processes that require creme up and pre-blend stages. This mixer offers dough production rates of 500 to 6,000 kg/hour.
FX Continuous Mixer – The FX Continuous Mixer is ideal for distributing small amounts of moisture evenly into large quantities of powder, such as potato flakes used to make fabricated potato chips and any other low moisture mixtures, which is accomplished by lifting the powder into atomized liquids. This high shear mixer offers dough production rates of 100 to 1,250 kg/hour.
LDX Continuous Mixer – The LDX Continuous Mixer is an excellent choice for most cookies and similar applications where ingredients are blended before adding flour. This mixer offers dough production rates of 1,500 to 7,500 kg/hour.
Reading Bakery Systems has bakery mixing equipment for sale to help you meet your process and product challenges. Call us at (01) 610-693-5816 or contact us online.