Consider Reading Bakery Systems, world leaders in manufacturing production line equipment for baked goods, to help you perfect your pet treat process and product. We deliver an unrivaled level of commitment to superior quality and excellent customer support.
Reading Bakery Systems (RBS), headquartered in Robesonia, Pennsylvania, serves customers in the global snack food industry, providing high-quality equipment for the production of stackable potato chips, baked potato chips, baked crisps, and other products such as crackers, biscuits, pretzels, bread snacks, dry pet food, pet treats and more.
If you are new to the pet treat industry or want to explore methods of improving your volumes or 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, equipment design, production management, and process development, as well as assistance in die design and custom equipment development.
Mixing Solutions
Continuous mixing technology can be utilized for both soft and chewy and hard and crunchy pet treats and will help you produce more consistent finished products than batch mixing can accomplish. The completely automated process is ideal because the products are both well-mixed and heated to the proper kill temperature in the mixer.
The Exact EX Continuous Mixer is the ideal choice for pet treats. Dough is gently mixed and developed without generating excessive heat. Dough delivery can be automated with a mini-laytime conveyor and chunker or kibbler attachments. Dough production rates range from 100 to 10,000 kg/hour.
Forming Solutions
For extruded and co-extruded products: The Reading Pretzel Low Pressure (LP) Extruder offers a flexible, less expensive alternative to conventional dough forming and sheeting systems. Create pet foods and treats in a variety of structural and flat extruded and co-extruded shapes and sticks.
For sheeted products: The Thomas L. Green 3-Roll Sheeter features two forcing rolls that draw the dough into the pressurized cavity between the three rolls. The dough is compacted and discharged as a continuous sheet. Gauging Stations will ensure accurate thickness prior to shape forming. The Thomas L. Green Rotary Cutting Station accurately and continuously cuts discrete product shapes out of a single dough sheet.
For moulded products: Use the Thomas L. Green Rotary Moulder to press dough into a die roll and produce high definition, three dimensional shapes for your pet treats. Engraved brass die rolls are interchangeable and can be supplied with segmented rings for simultaneous, multiple shape production.
For nuggets and sticks: The Reading Pretzel Guillotine Cutter is designed to uniformly cut products before or after baking. It can be operated in a continuous mode at up to 175 cuts per minute, or a cycle mode at speeds up to 50 cuts per minute, while operators control the cut mode and speed from a local control panel.
Baking and Drying Solutions
The Reading Pretzel SPECTRUM OVEN® is a single-pass convection baking platform that is ideal for balanced, consistent baking of pet treats.
It is offered in a number of different combinations of heat transfer modules - radiation, convection and conduction - and enables customers to expand product variety by simply adjusting the heat transfer profile. Separate heating zones give you more precise repeatable control over heat transfer, baking time, temperature, humidity and product quality.
When you need pet treat manufacturing production line equipment, consider Reading Bakery Systems. Contact us today at (01) 610-693-5816 to learn more.