Cracker bakers around the world have come to trust Reading Bakery Systems’ Thomas L. Green equipment for durable, reliable production line systems for straight sheeted, dual sheeted and laminated crackers.
Reading Bakery Systems, headquartered in Robesonia, PA, serves snack food manufacturers around the globe. We offer a complete line of mixing, dough handling and forming, baking, drying, and supplemental equipment that is designed to help customers meet their challenges when processing fermented or unfermented cracker dough, biscuit dough and other two-stage or proofed-dough products.
Mixing Solutions
Reading Bakery Systems is at the forefront of technology and innovation in the commercial baking industry and recent advancements in support equipment and controls have made continuous mixing technologies possible for the snack cracker industry.
The advantages over batch mixing include:
- reduced lay time
- elimination of dough troughs
- improved consistency
- reduced labor and energy
- full automation and documentation
The Exact EX Continuous Mixer is ideal for everything but the lowest viscosity powder/liquid mixtures. It uniformly mixes products with a variety of dough moisture levels. This mixer offers dough production rates from 100 to 10,000 kg/hour.
Sheeting & Laminating Solutions
The process begins with a 3-roll, or 4-Roll Primary Sheeter to produce a hole-free sheet at a uniform density, critical to automated packaging systems after the oven.
Our Thomas L. Green Servo-Cut Sheet Laminator accurately cuts, stacks and delivers sheets of dough for unique product textures. The precise and gentle placement of cut sheets provides uniform dough density at both the edges and center of the finished cracker sheet for consistency. Dough sheeters may be installed to the side, or directly above, the Laminator for a compact and efficient production layout.
Oven Solutions
The cracker industry has trusted Thomas L. Green ovens for more than 120 years. The PRISM OVEN is a flexible single-pass baking platform that offers Direct Gas Fired (DGF) zones, Emithermic (Radiant / Convection) zones and Convection zones for:
- Crackers
- Hard biscuits
- Soft biscuits
- Cookies
- Snack cakes
- English muffins
Customers appreciate the PRISM OVEN’S capacity for repeatable control of time, temperature, humidity and type of heat transfer.
More Equipment Solutions
Complete cracker systems include Gauging Stations to ensure a gentle reduction in sheet thickness prior to shape cutting at the Rotary Cutting Station. A Cracker Breaker is also available to precisely divide serrated cracker sheets.
Toppings of all kinds can be easily distributed by one of our Omega Dispensers. These dispensers can handle a wide variety of topping materials, from uniformly sized to fine-grain to irregular sized toppings, and feature leveling mechanisms that minimize material bridging and clumping.
As leading manufacturers of cracker production line equipment and a complete range of other commercial baking solutions, Reading Bakery Systems can help you reduce costs and produce consistent, high-quality products. Call us at (01) 610-693-5816 or click here for additional information.