Reading Bakery Systems is a leading manufacturer of the world’s most advanced industrial cracker production equipment.
Headquartered in Robesonia, Pennsylvania, our goal is to help customers around the globe meet their unique challenges and take their cracker production to the next level.
Continuous Mixing
As leaders in technology and innovation in the commercial baking industry, Reading Bakery Systems has developed another first: continuous mixing for the cracker manufacturers.
The continuous mixing process has numerous advantages compared to batch mixing, including:
- No undesirable variations from batch to batch
- Consistent finished weight, size and texture
- Even dough hydration
- Recipe control and repeatability
- High production rates with one mixer
- Completely automated process
- Eliminates chance of contamination
- Can be operated with less labor and energy than batch mixing
The Exact EX Continuous Mixer is ideal for crackers, pretzels, pizza, pie crusts, sweet goods, pet treats and a variety of other wheat-based snacks. It uniformly mixes products with a variety of dough moisture levels. This mixer offers dough production rates from 100 to 10,000 kg/hour.
Sheeting & Laminating
The 2-roll, 3-roll, or 4-Roll Sheeter will produce a hole-free sheet at a uniform density, critical to automated packaging systems after the oven. The thickness of the sheet produced is controlled by the distance between the rolls (which is adjustable). The rolls compress the dough into a single sheet with consistent characteristics and thickness.
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
The cracker industry has trusted Thomas L. Green ovens for more than 120 years. The PRISM OVEN is a flexible single-pass baking platform designed to enhance product consistency.
The oven offers Emithermic, Direct Gas Fired (DGF) and convection baking zones for cookies, crackers or biscuits for balanced and consistent quality, color, taste and texture.
Make the most of both zones with product development and “cooking” in the Emithermic zone and efficient moisture removal and coloring in the convection zone. Customers appreciate the oven’s capacity for repeatable control of time, temperature, humidity and type of heat transfer.
The PRISM OVEN is now available with traditional brick or Thermatec High Radiant Steel Ceiling, a new technology that offers performance comparable to traditional fire brick oven ceilings. The Thermatec Ceiling radiates heat as effectively as fire bricks, is less expensive, and does not need the maintenance that fire bricks require
Conduct Confidential Trials
To explore the capabilities of our equipment, visit the Reading Bakery Systems Science & Innovation Center, a fully equipped, licensed research and development facility that offers a complete process line where customers can duplicate conditions they might encounter in full-scale production.
Call Reading Bakery Systems at (01) 610-693-5816 to learn more about our extensive range of industrial cracker production equipment, or click here to contact us online.