Reading Bakery Systems manufactures flexible and cost-effective industrial bakery equipment that is designed to assist in your manufacture of extruded snacks.
Headquartered in Robesonia, Pennsylvania, Reading Bakery Systems is a long-time global leader in the snack food industry. We proudly offer the world’s most technologically advanced equipment and systems from:
- Thomas L. Green (which has supplied the biscuit, cracker and cookie industries since 1893);
- Reading Pretzel (whose long history of manufacturing expertise dates back to 1947);
- Reading Thermal (which manufactures the SCORPION® 2 Profiling System, a standard in the baking industry); and
- Exact Mixing (the world’s most innovative developer of Continuous Mixing solutions).
Low Pressure Extrusion
Create a wide range of structural and flat extruded shapes with the Reading Pretzel Low Pressure (LP) Extruder. A flexible alternative to conventional dough forming and sheeting systems, it allows for high-speed production of complex shapes by forcing dough through compression head and die assemblies.
The LP Extruder enables you to create many different snacks on a single production line, including hard pretzel shapes, sticks, braids, crackers, sushki, and co-extruded products. Complete product changeover in just minutes by exchanging one compression head and die for another with a different shape.
The LP Extruder was recently redesigned with augers that deliver more product flow with less work; new lightweight, seamless hoppers that eliminate harborage areas; pre-feed rolls made of food-safe plastics; an improved cutting mechanism with a longer service life; improved guarding for better safety; and a bandcutter cam that is positioned away from the product zone to reduce contamination and provide easier maintenance.
Filled Stick Extrusion
The Reading Pretzel Filled Stick Extrusion System allows for the creation of sticks filled with soft fillings, such as cheese, chocolate or peanut butter. A pump system pushes the soft filling through the compression head and die on the LP Extruder so that it fills the dough stick formed by the Extruder. The product rope can then be cut into equal length sticks or nuggets by the downstream Guillotine Cutter.
Fried Snack Extrusion
The Reading Pretzel Fried Snack Extruder produces flexible and innovative product shapes for fried snack extruded products, such as potato rings, potato sticks, and ethnic noodles. It is capable of processing up to 3,000 pounds (1500 kilograms) of dough per hour.
The extruded product is delivered to the fryer by a belted conveyor or by incorporating an optional oil “free float” conveying section. The Extruder with pre-feed rollers manages dough flow for optimum consistency from the time it enters the infeed hopper through being cut off at the die face by the high-speed bandcutter.
High Pressure Extrusion
The High-Pressure Extruder mixes and cooks ingredients to produce expanded shapes, including curls, popcorn shapes, rings, and balls. Its flexible design provides for quick and easy changeover of the screws, barrels and product dies, allowing for a wide variety of products with interesting textures and flavors in different shapes.
To learn more about Reading Bakery’s industrial equipment for extruded snacks, contact us today at (01) 610-693-5816 or contact us online.