Reading Bakery Systems has extensive experience with the pet food manufacturing process and consistently meets the needs of dry pet food, pet treat and baked snack food manufacturers worldwide.
Reading Bakery Systems, headquartered in Robesonia, Pennsylvania, is a leading manufacturer of bakery equipment. We serve customers in the global food service and bakery industries, providing high-quality systems for the production of crackers, biscuits, baked potato chips, cookies, pretzels, bread snacks, baked crisps, pet food, pet treats and more.
With more than 120 years of commercial baking experience, our innovative solutions are designed to meet your production needs. We work side-by-side with customers to meet their process and product challenges with innovative thinking and high-quality systems and components.
Mixing Innovations
Continuous Mixing eliminates the undesirable dough variations that are caused by batch mixing and ensures that all ingredients are incorporated properly.
The Exact EX Continuous Mixer is well-suited to both soft/chewy and hard/crunchy pet food. The system requires less floor space and can be mounted over the forming equipment. Dough delivery can also be automated with a mini-laytime conveyor and chunker or kibbler attachments.
Forming Innovations
- Extruded and co-extruded pet food: The Reading Pretzel Low Pressure (LP) Extruder allows you to produce consistent and accurate structural, flat and filled extruded shapes and sticks. Fit with different compression heads and dies to broaden your product range.
- Rotary moulded pet food: The Thomas L. Green Rotary Moulder efficiently produces high definition, three dimensional shapes by pressing dough into a die roll. The interchangeable die roll is made of engraved brass and can be supplied with segmented rings for simultaneous, multiple shape production.
- Sheeted pet food: The Thomas L. Green Sheeter creates a consistent dough sheet and Gauging Stations ensure accurate thickness prior to forming. Form scrapless geometric shapes and distinct shapes with the Rotary Cutting Station.
- Sticks and nuggets: The single-blade Reading Pretzel Guillotine Cutter uniformly cuts products before or after baking, allowing the operator to create a product size as short as one inch (25 mm) at the press of a button.
Oven Innovations
With the Reading Pretzel SPECTRUM OVEN®, customers benefit from a variety of heat transfer combinations in one modular design. The single pass convection baking platform is designed for balanced and consistent baking of pet food and treats. Operators control the product moisture removal rate for maximum quality assurance.
Add a separate optional Multi-Pass Dryer for faster oven speeds, greater production throughput, and more process control. The Dryer efficiently reduces product core moistures, improving overall quality and storage characteristics.
To experience the advantages of the world’s most advanced pet food and pet treat equipment for your manufacturing process from Reading Bakery Systems, click here or call us at (01) 610-693-5816. We offer complete turnkey systems, as well as a wide range of equipment that will meet your unique production needs.