Reading Bakery Systems manufactures the world’s most advanced industrial equipment for your cracker production process. Our Thomas L. Green brand has been supplying efficient, reliable and cost-effective commercial baking equipment since 1893.
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 helps customers meet their challenges when processing fermented or unfermented cracker dough, biscuit dough and other two-stage or proofed-dough products.
Continuous Mixing for Crackers
As leaders in technology and innovation in the commercial baking industry, Reading Bakery Systems has developed another first – continuous mixing for the snack cracker industry.
Compared to batch mixing, continuous mixing offers full automation and documentation and can:
- reduce lay time
- eliminate dough troughs
- improve consistency
- reduce labor and energy
The Exact EX Continuous Mixer uniformly mixes products with a variety of dough moisture levels, offering dough production rates from 100 to 10,000 kg/hour.
Sheeting & Laminating
The Thomas L. Green 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. Consistent sheet thickness is controlled by the distance between the rolls that compress the dough (which is adjustable).
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.
Baking
For more than 120 years, the Thomas L. Green PRISM OVEN, a flexible single-pass baking platform, has helped customers improve consistency with uniform color, taste, texture and quality.
The oven offers Direct Gas Fired (DGF), Emithermic (Radiant / Convection) and Convection zones. Each zone is available with a number of options to permit the precise combination of radiation, convection heating and conduction, providing the quality conscious baker with repeatable control of time, temperature, humidity and the type of heat transfer.
Other Cracker Solutions
Our 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.
Reading Bakery Systems can help you reduce costs and produce consistent, high-quality products with innovative industrial equipment that is suitable for all parts of your cracker production process. Call us at (01) 610-693-5816 or click here for additional information.