High-quality automated dry pet food systems from Reading Bakery Systems are designed to handle all aspects of your manufacturing process, from mixing, to forming, to baking and drying. Our production lines are capable of producing 125- 1000 kg/ hour.
Reading Bakery Systems, headquartered in Robesonia, Pennsylvania, is a world leader in the manufacture of commercial bakery equipment. Our experience with pet food comes from more than a century of developing proven solutions in the global snack food industry.
Our primary brands – Thomas L. Green, Reading Pretzel and Exact Mixing – provide superior mixing, dough handling and forming, baking, and drying equipment that consistently meet the needs of dry pet food, pet treat and snack food manufacturers worldwide. Our pet food and pet treat solutions include:
- Exact EX Continuous Mixer: Continuous mixing provides a major advantage over batch mixing by producing more consistent dough and product textures. The mixer can be utilized for both soft and chewy and hard and crunchy pet treats. Mount it over forming equipment to take up less space, and automate dough delivery with mini-laytime conveyor and chunker, kibbler or sheeter attachments.
- Reading Pretzel Low Pressure (LP) Extruder: The LP Extruder allows for the creation of a wide variety of structural, flat and filled extruded and co-extruded shapes and sticks. Fit the Extruder with different compression heads and dies to broaden your product range. The LP Extruder offers new cost-effective opportunities for the dry pet food and pet treat industries.
- Thomas L. Green Rotary Moulder: This machine is ideal for high-definition 3-D pet treat shapes. It presses dough into interchangeable die rolls and can be supplied with segmented rings for simultaneous, multi-shape production.
- Thomas L. Green Sheeter: The Sheeter generates a consistent dough sheet, and Gauging Stations ensure a gentle reduction in sheet thickness prior to shape forming. Scrapless geometric shapes and distinct shapes can be formed by the Rotary Cutting Station.
- Reading Pretzel Guillotine Cutter: This single-blade cutter uniformly cuts products before or after baking and enables the operator to create a product size as short as one inch (25 mm) at the press of a button.
- SPECTRUM OVEN®: This single pass convection baking platform is designed for balanced and consistent baking of pet food and pet treats. Control of the exhaust, air temperature and circulation velocity allow the operator to control the product moisture removal rate for maximum quality assurance. A separate multi-pass dryer may be combined with the oven zone to create a space efficient two-pass baking chamber.
To explore our innovative equipment or learn how to improve your production process, consider working with our team in the Reading Bakery Systems Science & Innovation Center, where you can test the latest new machinery and processing techniques, duplicate conditions you might encounter in full-scale production, change and test ingredients in your products, and develop new pet food and pet treats.
Reading Bakery Systems offers automated systems that are designed to meet the production needs of your dry pet food manufacturing process.Call us at (01) 610-693-5816 for more information, or click here to contact us online.