Reading Bakery Systems provides the world’s most advanced industrial equipment for your cracker manufacturing process. Our Thomas L. Green brand has supplied efficient, reliable, and cost-effective commercial baking equipment since 1893.
Reading Bakery Systems (RBS), headquartered in Robesonia, Pennsylvania, has been a leader in commercial baking systems and technology for 125-plus years. We serve customers in the global foodservice industries, providing them with state-of-the-art systems for the production of crackers, biscuits, cookies, pretzels, baked potato chips, bread snacks, baked crisps, pet treats and more.
Continuous Mixing Solutions
RBS has now developed continuous mixing systems for the snack cracker industry. In comparison to batch mixing, continuous mixing offers full automation and documentation and can:
- reduce lay time
- eliminate dough troughs
- improve consistency of weight, size and texture
- operate with less labor and energy
The Exact EX Continuous Mixer mixes products with a variety of dough moisture levels uniformly and offers dough production rates of 100 to 10,000 kg/hour.
Sheeting, Laminating & Other Cracker Solutions
Thomas L. Green 2-roll, 3-roll, or 4-Roll Sheeters produce hole-free sheets at a uniform density that is critical to automated packaging systems after the oven. Consistent sheet thickness is controlled by the distance between the rolls that compress the dough (which is adjustable).
The Thomas L. Green Servo-Cut Sheet Laminator accurately cuts, stacks, and delivers sheets of dough to create unique product textures. The precise, gentle placement of cut sheets provides uniform dough density at both the edges and center of the finished cracker sheet for consistency.
RBS’ complete cracker systems include Gauging Stations that will ensure a gentle reduction in sheet thickness before shape cutting at the Rotary Cutting Station. A Cracker Breaker is also available to precisely divide serrated cracker sheets.
Toppings of all kinds can be easily dispersed by one of our Omega Dispensers. These dispensers can handle a wide range of materials, from uniformly sized to fine-grain to irregular-sized toppings, and have leveling mechanisms that minimize material bridging and clumping.
Oven Solutions
The flexible PRISM OVEN is a single-pass baking platform that offers Direct Gas Fired (DGF) zones, Emithermic (Radiant / Convection) zones and Convection zones for:
- Crackers
- Hard biscuits
- Soft biscuits
- Cookies
- Snack cakes
- English muffins
The cracker industry has entrusted its cracker production to Thomas L. Green ovens for more than 125 years and appreciate the oven’s capacity for repeatable control of time, temperature, humidity, and type of heat transfer.
Conduct a Confidential Trial
Explore the capabilities of our equipment by visiting the Reading Bakery Systems Science & Innovation Center. The Center is a licensed, fully equipped research and development facility that provides a complete process line where customers can duplicate conditions they can expect to encounter in full-scale cracker production.
Reading Bakery Systems is a leading manufacturer of industrial equipment for the cracker manufacturing process, as well as a complete line of other commercial baking solutions. We can help you reduce costs and produce consistent, high-quality products.Get in touch with us at (01) 610-693-5816 or click here for additional information.