Whether new to fabricated puffed (or popped) snack production or a veteran snack food producer, better baking begins with production line equipment from Reading Bakery Systems.
Reading Bakery Systems (RBS), headquartered in Robesonia, PA, understands the constantly evolving nature of the global baked snack food industry. We design and manufacture the world’s most advanced industrial baking equipment to help you streamline your processes, find more efficient ways of making your products, and maximize your profitability.
Puffed Snack Systems
RBS and Incomec, a Belgium-based popping/puffing equipment manufacturer, have partnered to supply customers in the U.S. and Canada with specialized puffed snack equipment.
RBS will supply the necessary auxiliary equipment, including conveyors, feeders, and seasoners, and offer sales support, installation, and technical support for the Popped Snack Systems.
Based on the products you wish to produce, Incomec will supply either a Cerex or Pellex C+ Processor. The production line can also be scaled, so processors can be added to your line as your business grows.
- Cerex Processor (Puffed cakes food processor.) This grain processor converts untreated grain, pellets, and cereal blends with high free starch levels into unique puffed products. Traditional rice cakes, puffed biscuits, and cracker-like products of varying sizes can be produced with quick and simple changes of the forming dies.
- Pellex C+ Processor (Popped chips food processor.) This processor converts micropellets and dry ingredients with high free starch levels, such as broken rice, corn grits, and potato-based materials, into crunchy, wavy chips.
Process Steps
- Ingredients are delivered through a hopper, volumetrically metered, and introduced into the heated mould by a feed slide.
- The Processor then pressurizes the ingredients for a short time. This pressurization converts the ingredient moisture into steam, resulting in popping or expansion.
- Next, the mould is opened slightly, enabling the ingredients to form the product.
- After being ejected onto a conveyor, the finished products are guided to a Cleaning Drum where unpopped ingredients and fines are removed, and then they proceed to flavoring and packaging
Create and test your product ideas - in person or virtually - at our Science & Innovation Center in Sinking Spring, Pennsylvania. Visit with our team at the Center, where you can experiment with our complete process lines and continuous mixing systems to create and test a wide variety of food products.
More Snack Production Equipment
The RBS team is dedicated to helping customers in the global food service and bakery industries discover new and more efficient ways of making their products. Our state-of-the-art equipment includes:
Continuous Mixers: Exact Mixing Continuous Mixers come in all sizes, from 50 to 10,000 kg/hour, and are available based primarily on dough moisture levels or dough mixing stages.
High-Quality Ovens: The Thomas L. Green PRISM OVEN has been trusted in the biscuit, cookie, and cracker industry for over a century. The flexible single-pass baking platform enhances product consistency. The Reading Pretzel SPECTRUM OVEN® offers the same flexibility as the PRISM OVEN for baking pretzels, bread snacks, baked crisps, and potato snacks.
If you are interested in fabricated puffed / popped snack production equipment, Reading Bakery Systems can help you customize a system to meet your unique needs. Call us at (01) 610-693-5816 or contact us online for more information.