As manufacturers of industrial biscuit production line equipment, Reading Bakery Systems offer customers flexible, efficient solutions that will keep them competitive. Customers in the biscuit industry have trusted our Thomas L. Green brand of equipment for more than 125 years.
About Us
Reading Bakery Systems (RBS) serves customers in the global food service and bakery industries, providing high-quality equipment for the production of biscuits, crackers, cookies, pretzels, baked potato chips, bread snacks, baked crisps, pet treats and more.
The success story of the brand started in 1893 when Thomas L. Green and his partners manufactured the first rotary biscuit-cutting machine. By the 1960s, the company was the only manufacturer of complete baking production lines in the U.S. and served customers in more than 30 countries.
Thomas L. Green merged with Reading Bakery Systems in 2001 and, today, we proudly manufacture the world’s most advanced commercial equipment for the production of a wide variety of food and snack products.
Forming Hard or Soft Biscuits
For forming hard biscuits, the Thomas L. Green 3-Roll Sheeter generates a consistent dough sheet that is ready for additional thickness reduction or lamination. It can receive dough manually, or from an automated handling system.
The Thomas L. Green Gauging Stations reduce the dough sheet thickness by a by a 3:1 ratio from infeed to discharge. Gauge rolls maintain a consistent dough thickness, and dough flow is accurately controlled to maintain dough density, laminations and finished product weights.
The Thomas L. Green Rotary Cutting Station accurately and continuously cuts scrapless geometric shapes and distinct biscuit shapes out of a single dough sheet. Scrap dough can be re-routed to the dough handling system for reuse. Single roll stations are available, and the system can be designed with two or more die rolls in a series to accommodate complex shape adjustment or to create different products on the same line.
For soft biscuits, the Thomas L. Green Rotary Moulder is designed to efficiently produce high definition, three dimensional biscuits, cookies, sandwich cookies, and pet treats. The interchangeable engraved brass die roll can be supplied with segmented rings for multiple shapes.
Baking Biscuits
The Thomas L. Green PRISM OVEN is a powerful system for uniform baking of products such as hard and soft biscuits, cookies, crackers, snack cakes and more. It features:
- Direct gas fired, convection and Emithermic radiant/convection baking zones
- Uniform quality, color, taste and texture
- Repeatable control of time, temperature, humidity, and type of heat transfer
- Available in full stainless steel to address salt, corrosion and high humidity levels
- Excellent access for cleaning
See Everything in Action
We encourage customers to test out the PRISM OVEN, our dough mixing and forming processes, and a complete process line for making biscuits and other snack foods in the Reading Bakery Systems Science & Innovation Center to learn how to increase productivity in your operation.
This will also allow you to evaluate factors such as production capacity, ease-of-use, ease-of-maintenance, floor space, cost, and whether the equipment will help you produce biscuits and other products that meet your expectations.
Call Reading Bakery Systems, manufacturers of innovative industrial biscuit production line equipment, at (01) 610-693-5816 or click here to contact us online.