When your dry pet food manufacturing process requires efficient, cost-effective equipment, such as a mixer, extruder, cutter, commercial oven or dryer, Reading Bakery Systems can help you take your operation to the next level with completely automated system solutions.
Reading Bakery Systems is a leading manufacturer of bakery equipment. Headquartered in Robesonia, Pennsylvania, our goal is to help customers around the globe make their production processes safer, more flexible and more efficient than ever before.
Our primary brands – Thomas L. Green, Reading Pretzel and Exact Mixing – provide superior mixing, dough handling and forming, baking, and drying equipment that consistently meet the needs of dry pet food, pet treat and snack food manufacturers worldwide.
Our pet food and pet treat solutions include:
- Exact EX Continuous Mixer: Continuous mixing provides a major advantage over batch mixing by producing more consistent dough and product textures. The mixer can be utilized for both soft and chewy and hard and crunchy pet treats. Mount it over forming equipment to take up less space, and automate dough delivery with mini-laytime conveyor and chunker, kibbler or sheeter attachments.
- Reading Pretzel Low Pressure (LP) Extruder: The LP Extruder allows for the creation of a wide variety of structural, flat and filled extruded and co-extruded shapes and sticks. Fit the Extruder with different compression heads and dies to broaden your product range. The LP Extruder offers new cost-effective opportunities for the dry pet food and pet treat industries.
- Thomas L. Green Rotary Moulder: This machine is ideal for high-definition 3-D pet treat shapes. It presses dough into interchangeable die rolls and can be supplied with segmented rings for simultaneous, multi-shape production.
- Thomas L. Green Sheeter: The 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.
- Reading Pretzel Guillotine Cutter: This single-blade cutter uniformly cuts products before or after baking and enables the operator to create a product size as short as one inch (25 mm) at the press of a button.
- SPECTRUM OVEN®: This single pass convection baking platform is designed for balanced and consistent baking of pet food and pet treats. Control of the exhaust, air temperature and circulation velocity allow the operator to control the product moisture removal rate for maximum quality assurance. A separate multi-pass dryer may be combined with the oven zone to create a space efficient two-pass baking chamber.
Test Equipment & Techniques
If you are new to the pet food industry or want to explore methods of expanding your volumes or improving your production processes, work with our team in the Reading Bakery Systems Science & Innovation Center to test the latest new machinery and processing techniques and duplicate conditions you might encounter in full-scale production.
In the Center, customers have access to our unrivaled expertise in manufacturing, research and development, quality assurance, equipment design, production management and process development.
Reading Bakery Systems can help you perfect your pet food manufacturing process and your products and increase profitability. Call us at (01) 610-693-5816 or click here to contact us online to learn more.