Installing the right equipment in your pet food production line from Reading Bakery Systems will enable you to capitalize on innovation, increase your efficiency, and reduce costs without sacrificing the quality of your products.
With over 120 years of commercial baking experience, Reading Bakery Systems (RBS), headquartered in Robesonia, Pennsylvania, manufactures the most innovative and cost-effective pet food production equipment to meet the needs of every part of your process. Our production lines are capable of producing 125- 3000 kg/ hour.
Mixing Innovations
If your dough suffers from undesirable variations from batch to batch, one of the first improvements you can make is to switch from batch mixing to continuous mixing. Continuous Mixing offers many advantages compared to batch mixing, particularly in its ability to produce more consistent dough with less labor and energy.
The Exact EX Continuous Mixer is ideal for both soft/chewy and hard/crunchy pet food and treats. It uniformly mixes dough with a variety of dough moisture levels.Dough can be quickly heated to the proper kill temperature within a range of one degree and then cooled.This is done automatically and with no handling or manual transporting of the dough.
Dough Forming Innovations
Whether your pet food or treats are rotary moulded, extruded, sheeted, or in stick or nugget form, Reading Bakery Systems offers a solution designed and engineered to meet your requirements.
Rotary Moulded: The Thomas L. Green Rotary Moulder produces high definition, three-dimensional shapes by pressing dough into a die roll. Engraved brass die rolls are interchangeable and can be supplied with segmented rings for simultaneous, multiple shape production.
Extruded: The Reading Pretzel Low Pressure (LP) Extruder enables you to produce consistent and accurate structural, flat and filled extruded shapes and sticks. Fit the Extruder with different compression heads and dies to expand your product range.
Sheeted: The Thomas L. Green Sheeter creates a consistent dough sheet for sheeted pet treats, and Gauging Stations ensure accurate thickness prior to shape forming. Scrapless geometric shapes and distinct shapes can be formed with the Rotary Cutting Station.
Sticks/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 push of a button.
Baking and Drying Innovations
Reading Pretzel SPECTRUM OVEN® customers benefit from a variety of heat transfer combinations in one modular design. The single-pass convection baking platform features operator-controlled air temperature, circulation speed, exhaust, and moisture removal for reliable, consistent baking of pet treats. Add an optional SPECTRUM Multi-Pass Dryer for faster oven speeds, greater production throughput, and more process control.
Test & Improve Your Processes
If you would like to explore our innovative equipment or learn how our equipment could improve your pet treat production process, consider working with our team in the Reading Bakery Systems Science & Innovation Center, where you can 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 pet treats.
Take advantage of the latest innovations in pet food equipment and explore the continuous mixing, forming, baking and drying solutions available from Reading Bakery Systems that can help you improve your processes and products. Call us at (01) 610-693-5816 or click here for more information.