Reading Bakery Systems’ expertise, innovative research and development, and range of industrial cracker making equipment are unrivaled. Cracker bakers around the world have come to trust Thomas L. Green equipment for durable, reliable production systems for straight sheeted, dual sheeted and laminated crackers for production volumes ranging from 500 – 5500 kg/hr.
Headquartered in Robesonia, Pennsylvania, Reading Bakery Systems is a leading manufacturer of bakery equipment. Our equipment is designed to help customers around the world meet their challenges when processing fermented or unfermented cracker dough, biscuit dough and other two-stage or proofed-dough products.
Mixing Equipment
Dough can be mixed on Thomas L. Green Vertical Spindle Mixers, which allow the dough to be mixed twice and remain in the same trough throughout the entire process, or with Exact Continuous Mixers, which uniformly mix products with a variety of dough moisture levels. Delivery of dough into the sheeting system can be automated with laytime options, metal detections, dough chunking and dough pre-sheeting.
Sheeting & Laminating Equipment
The process begins with a 3-roll or 4-Roll Primary Sheeter to produce a hole-free sheet at a uniform density, critical to automated packaging systems after the oven.
Our Thomas L. Green Servo-Cut Sheet Laminator and In-Line Laminator accurately cut, stack and deliver 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. Dough sheeters may be installed to the side, or directly above, the Laminator for a compact and efficient production layout.
Baking Equipment
The Prism Oven is a powerful system for uniform baking of cracker products. Capitalizing on over 100 years of successful installations worldwide, both direct gas-fired and convection oven modules are employed, providing consistent quality, color, taste and texture.
Auxiliary Equipment
Complete cracker systems include Gauging Stations to ensure a gentle reduction in sheet thickness prior to shape cutting at the Rotary Cutting Station, as well as a Cracker Breaker 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.
Test the Equipment and Techniques
If you are new to the snack cracker industry or would like to explore our many innovative options designed to improve your volumes or production processes, consider working with our team in the Reading Bakery Systems Science & Innovation Center.
The Center gives customers access to our unrivaled expertise in manufacturing, research and development, quality assurance, equipment design, production management, and process development, as well as assistance in die design and custom equipment development.
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 products to improve the quality of your crackers and increase your profitability.
As leading manufacturers of industrial cracker making equipment and a complete range of other commercial baking equipment, Reading Bakery Systems can help you reduce costs and produce consistent, high-quality products. Call us at (01) 610-693-5816 or click here for additional information.