Cracker production machinery from Reading Bakery Systems is designed to help customers around the world meet their challenges when processing fermented or unfermented cracker dough, biscuit dough, and other two-stage or proofed-dough products.
Reading Bakery Systems (RBS), headquartered in Robesonia, Pennsylvania, is a leading manufacturer of production systems for straight sheeted, dual sheeted and laminated crackers for production volumes ranging from 500 – 5500 kg/hr.
Our Thomas L. Green brand has been supplying cracker manufacturers with efficient, reliable and sanitary production systems since 1893. We can help you reduce costs and produce consistent, high-quality products.
Continuous Mixing for Crackers
RBS has now developed continuous mixing for the snack cracker industry. The Exact EX Continuous Mixer offers several advantages over batch mixing, including:
- Completely automated process
- No undesirable variations from batch to batch
- Consistent finished weight, size and texture
- Even dough hydration
- Recipe control and repeatability
- Eliminates chances of contamination
- Can be operated with less labor and energy than batch mixing
- Offers high production rates with one mixer
The EX Continuous Mixer uniformly mixes products with a variety of dough moisture levels, reduces lay time, eliminates dough troughs, and reduces labor and energy thanks to full automation.It offers dough production rates from 100 to 10,000 kg/hour.
Sheeting & Laminating
Thomas L. Green sheeting systems are available in widths of 600mm-1.5m with production volumes from 200-5500 kg/hr, depending on oven length, width and product type.
The 2-roll, 3-roll, or 4-Roll Sheeter will produce a hole-free sheet at a uniform density, critical to automated packaging systems after the oven. The thickness of the sheet produced is controlled by the distance between the rolls (which is adjustable). The rolls compress the dough into a single sheet with consistent characteristics and thickness.
Our Thomas L. Green Servo-Cut Sheet Laminator and In-Line Laminator accurately cut, stack and deliver 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.
Baking Solutions
The Thomas L. Green PRISM OVEN is a powerful single-pass system for uniform baking of cracker products. Capitalizing on over 120 years of successful installations worldwide, Emithermic, Direct Gas Fired (DGF) and Convection zones are employed, providing consistent quality, color, taste and texture of crackers, cookies and biscuits.
Customers appreciate the oven’s capacity for repeatable control of time, temperature, humidity and type of heat transfer.
Auxiliary Equipment
Complete cracker production systems from RBS include Gauging Stations that 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.
Reading Bakery Systems’ expertise, innovative research and development, and range of industrial cracker production machinery are unrivaled. If you are interested in producing the best crackers in the industry, get in touch with us at (01) 610-693-5816 to explore our wide range of equipment.