Whether you are new to popped snacks or a veteran snack food manufacturer, better baking begins with equipment from Reading Bakery Systems.
Reading Bakery Systems (RBS) in Robesonia, Pennsylvania, is a world leader in commercial baking equipment and technology. We design, engineer and manufacture the world’s most advanced commercial baking equipment to help customers discover more efficient ways of making their products.
Popped Snack Systems
RBS and Incomec, a Belgium-based manufacturer of popping/puffing equipment, have partnered to supply customers in the U.S. and Canada with specialized popped snack equipment.
RBS supplies the required auxiliary equipment, including conveyors, feeders, and seasoners, and provides sales support, installation and technical support for the Popped Snack Systems.
Incomec supplies a Pellex C+ or Cerex Processor depending on the final product you wish to produce. The Popped Snack line is also scalable, so processors can always be added to your line as your business grows.
- Pellex C+Processor: The Pellex C+ Processor produces light, crunchy chip products. It is capable of converting micropellets and dry ingredients with high free starch levels, such as broken rice, corn grits and potato-based materials, into a crunchy and wavy chip.
- Cerex Processor: The Cerex Processor is a grain processor that is designed to convert untreated grain, pellets and cereal blends with high free starch levels into unique popped products. It creates puffed rice cakes, cracker and biscuit type products of varying sizes that can be produced with quick and simple changes of the forming dies.
Popped Snack Process
- Ingredients are fed through a hopper, volumetrically metered and introduced by a feed-slide into a heated mould.
- The Processor pressurizes the ingredients for a short period of time. This pressurization allows the ingredient moisture to be converted into steam, resulting in expansion, or popping.
- The mould is opened slightly, allowing the ingredients to expand and form the product.
- The finished products are ejected onto a conveyor, which leads them to a Cleaning Drum to remove unpopped ingredients and fines and then on to flavoring and packaging.
More Turnkey Snack Production Systems
Fried Potato Rings: The extrusion-based Fried Potato Ring System is ideal for the flexible, efficient, high-volume production of extruded fried snacks, such as the popular fried potato ring product. It is capable of producing finished products at 200-1000 kg/hour.
Expanded Snacks: The innovative RBS Expanded Snack System enables you to create puffy, crunchy, direct expanded snacks made from cereal ingredients, such as rice, corn, and potato. These ready-to-eat snacks come in various simple shapes, including curls, balls, rings, animals, and stars, and are often textured and coated with salt, spices, or cheese to make them tasty and fun.
Granola Production: Today, healthier snacks, particularly granola bars, have become more popular. As RBS continues to help customers capitalize on consumer trends and maximize their operations, we have designed the new Granola Production System that incorporates efficiency, reliability, and flexibility to help our customers optimize production. Production volumes range from 500 – 2500 kg/hr.
If you are interested in manufacturing equipment for popped snacks or other snack products, Reading Bakery Systems can help you customize a system that meets your unique needs. Get in touch with us at (01) 610-693-5816, or click here to explore our equipment.