Take advantage of cost-effective pet food equipment from Reading Bakery Systems that can handle all aspects of your manufacturing process.
Reading Bakery Systems, headquartered in Robesonia, Pennsylvania, offers more than 120 years of experience in food engineering, which enables us to design and manufacture the world’s most advanced turnkey systems for the production of dry pet food, pet treats, and a wide range of other snack products.
Continuous Mixing
The Exact EX Continuous Mixer is ideal for both soft, chewy and hard, crunchy dry pet food and pet treats. Dough delivery can be automated with a mini-laytime conveyor and chunker, kibbler or sheeter attachments.
Compared to batch mixing, Continuous Mixing offers several benefits, including:
- Completely automated process
- Easier handling of materials
- Recipe control and repeatability
- More consistent finished products
- Requires less floor space
- Requires less labor and energy
- For non-baked products, achieves verifiable kill temperatures
Dough Forming Equipment
For rotary moulded pet food and pet treats, the Thomas L. Green Rotary Moulder efficiently produces high definition, three dimensional shapes by pressing dough into a die roll.
For extruded and co-extruded pet food, the Reading Pretzel Low Pressure (LP) Extruder enables consistent and accurate production of a variety of structural, flat and filled extruded shapes and sticks.
For sheeted pet food, the Thomas L. Green Sheeter generates a consistent dough sheet, and Gauging Stations ensure a gentle reduction in sheet thickness prior to shape forming. Scrapless geometric shapes and distinct shapes can be formed by the Rotary Cutting Station.
For sticks and nuggets, the single-blade Guillotine Cutter is used to cut products uniformly 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.
Baking & Drying Solutions
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 treats. Operators control the product moisture removal rate for maximum quality assurance. A separate dryer may be combined with the oven zone to create a space efficient two-pass baking chamber.
Product Research
If you are new to the dry pet food industry or would like to explore our many innovative options that are designed to improve your production processes, consider working with our team in the Reading Bakery Systems Science & Innovation Center.
The Center gives customers access to our unrivaled expertise in manufacturing, research and development, quality assurance and process development, as well as assistance in die design and custom equipment development.
Test the latest new machinery and processing techniques, duplicate conditions you might encounter in full-scale production, change and test ingredients in your products, and develop new products to improve the quality of your pet food and increase your profitability.
Reading Bakery Systems offers solutions for every part of your dry pet food process, including continuous mixing, forming, baking and drying equipment. Call us at (01) 610-693-5816 or click here for more information.