Having created proven solutions in the global snack food industry for more than 120 years, Reading Bakery Systems offers extensive experience with pet food and pet treats production lines.
We manufacture high-quality systems for the production of crackers, biscuits, baked potato chips, cookies, pretzels, bread snacks, baked crisps, pet food, pet treats and more.
Our state-of-the-art equipment will enable you to mix, form and bake pet food and pet treats in various shapes, textures and appearance, and improve your profitability at the same time.
Mixing Solutions
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.
Forming Solutions
Whether you are producing rotary molded, extruded, sheeted, or stick or nugget pet food or snacks, Reading Bakery Systems offers excellent solutions.
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 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.
Sheeted: The Thomas L. Green Sheeter creates a consistent dough sheet for sheeted pet treat products, 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 press of a button.
Baking and Drying Solutions
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.
If you would like to explore our technologically advanced equipment that is designed to improve your volumes or production processes, consider working with our team in the Reading Bakery Systems Science & Innovation Center.
Installation of the right equipment in your pet food or pet treats production lines can increase your efficiency and reduce costs without sacrificing the quality of your products. Call Reading Bakery Systems at (01) 610-693-5816 or click here to contact us online.