When your process involves extruded shapes and sticks, including baked, fried and frozen applications, Reading Bakery Systems offers innovative solutions. Our low pressure snack extruder is capable of producing flexible and innovative product shapes that will help you make an impressive visual presentation and distinguish your product from others on the market.
At Reading Bakery Systems, headquartered in Robesonia, Pennsylvania, we understand the dynamic nature of the global baked snack food industry. We developed the industry’s first low pressure extruder and dies for the production of pretzels and other extruded snacks in the early 1950s. This key technological development helped change the shape of the industry.
Our goal is to design, engineer and manufacture the world’s most advanced equipment to help customers discover better ways of making their products. To that end, we focus on innovation, high quality, reliability, ease-of-use, and worldwide service and support.
Low Pressure Extruder
Create a wide variety of structural and flat extruded shapes with the Reading Pretzel Low Pressure (LP) Extruder. It allows for high-speed production of complex shapes by forcing dough through compression head and die assemblies and is a flexible alternative to conventional dough forming and sheeting systems.
For maximum flexibility, the LP Extruder allows you to create many different snacks on a single production line, including a wide variety of pretzel and snack products, including pretzel shapes, sticks, braids, bread snacks, filled products and more. Product changeover can be completed in just minutes by exchanging one compression head and forming die for another.
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 access for maintenance.
Filled Stick Extruder
The Reading Pretzel Filled Stick Extrusion System creates sticks filled with soft fillings, such as chocolate, peanut butter or cheese. 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. Custom die and compression heads can be quickly changed for easy product changeovers.
Fried Snack Extruder
The Reading Pretzel Fried Snack Extruder creates fried snacks including potato rings, potato sticks, and ethnic noodles and 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, which operates at up to 275 cuts per minute (cpm) or in cycle mode up to 50 cpm.
Reading Bakery Systems serves the baked snack, pet treat, biscuit, and cookie and cracker industries and offers the world’s most advanced low pressure extruders and other equipment that will help you efficiently produce the tasty snacks that today’s consumers demand. Get in touch with Reading Bakery Systems today at (01) 610-693-5816 or contact us online.