Installation of the right dry pet food processing line equipment can increase your efficiency and reduce costs without sacrificing the quality of your products.
Reading Bakery Systems is a leading manufacturer of commercial bakery equipment, specializing in the world’s most advanced oven systems, continuous mixers, and a wide range of dough handling, dough forming, and auxiliary equipment that is unrivaled in the industry.
Our experience with dry pet food and pet treats comes from more than a century of developing proven solutions in the global snack food industry.
Mixing Equipment
Depending on your level of automation, Reading Bakery Systems offers batch or Continuous Mixing.
Continuous Mixing eliminates the undesirable dough variations that are caused by batch mixing, improving process efficiency and product consistency.
The Exact EX Continuous Mixer, for example, is ideal for both soft, chewy and hard, crunchy dry pet food and pet treats. Dough delivery can be automated with a mini-laytime conveyor and chunker, kibbler or sheeter attachments.
Continuous mixing offers additional advantages over batch mixing, such as:
- Completely automated process
- Easier handling of materials
- Recipe control and repeatability
- More consistent finished products
- Less floor space
- Less labor and energy
- For non-baked products, achieve verifiable kill temperatures
Dough Forming Equipment
- Moulded Products: For rotary moulded dry dog food products and pet treats, the Thomas L. Green Rotary Moulder efficiently produces high definition, three dimensional shapes by pressing dough into a die roll.
- Extruded Products: For extruded and co-extruded products, the Reading Pretzel Low Pressure (LP) Extruder enables consistent and accurate production of a variety of structural, flat and filled extruded shapes and sticks.
- Sheeted Products: For sheeted dog food and pet treats, the Thomas L. Green 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.
- Guillotine Cutter: For sticks and nuggets, the single-blade Guillotine Cutter is used to cut products uniformly before or after baking, allowing the operator to create a product size as short as one inch (25 mm) at the press of a button.
Baking & Drying Equipment
The Reading Pretzel SPECTRUM OVEN® is designed for balanced and consistent baking of dog food and pet treats. The single pass convection baking platform offers customers more precise control of product quality. A dryer may be combined with the oven zone to create a space efficient two-pass baking chamber.
A separate optional SPECTRUM Multi-Pass Dryer provides faster oven speeds, greater production throughput, and more process control. The Dryer efficiently reduces product core moistures, improving overall quality and storage characteristics.
Reading Bakery Systems’ expertise, innovative research and development, and range of dry pet food processing equipment are unparalleled. We offer unit machines and turnkey systems that will meet your production needs. Call us at (01) 610-693-5816 or click here to contact us online.