Looking for popped snack manufacturing equipment to take advantage of the latest healthy snack food trend? If you are concerned about the operational hurdles of venturing into this good-for-you snack segment, Reading Bakery Systems can help.
Reading Bakery Systems, headquartered in Robesonia, Pennsylvania, is the leading industry supplier of high-volume commercial snack production equipment.We serve customers around the globe, providing reliable and efficient systems for the production of popped snacks, pretzels, cookies, crackers, biscuits, baked potato chips, bread snacks, baked crisps, pet treats and more.
Popped Snack Systems
RBS and Incomec, a Belgium-based manufacturer of popping/puffing equipment, have partnered to supply customers in the U.S. and Canada with specialized popped snack equipment.
RBS will supply the required auxiliary equipment, including conveyors, feeders, and seasoners, as well as provide sales support, installation and technical support for the Popped Snack Systems.
Incomec will supply a Pellex C+ or Cerex Processor depending on the final product you wish to produce. The Popped Snack line is also scalable, so processors can always be added to your line as your business grows.
- Pellex C+Processor: The Pellex C+ Processor produces light, crunchy chip products. It is capable of converting micropellets and dry ingredients with high free starch levels, such as broken rice, corn grits and potato-based materials, into a crunchy and wavy chip.
- Cerex Processor: The Cerex Processor is a grain processor that is designed to convert untreated grain, pellets and cereal blends with high free starch levels into unique popped products. It creates puffed rice cakes, cracker and biscuit type products of varying sizes that can be produced with quick and simple changes of the forming dies.
Popped Snack Process
- Ingredients are fed through a hopper, volumetrically metered and introduced by a feed-slide into a heated mould.
- The Processor pressurizes the ingredients for a short period of time. This pressurization allows the ingredient moisture to be converted into steam, resulting in expansion, or popping.
- The mould is opened slightly, allowing the ingredients to expand and form the product.
- The finished products are ejected onto a conveyor, which leads them to a Cleaning Drum to remove unpopped ingredients and fines and then on to flavoring and packaging.
See It in the Innovation Center
Reading Bakery Systems installed a Pellex C+ Processor at our Science & Innovation Center in Sinking Spring, Pennsylvania, for demonstrations and product development testing. We encourage you to visit with our team to test your products and processes on our equipment and determine which equipment may be right for your products.
Whether you are new to popped snack food or a veteran snack food processor, better baking begins with manufacturing equipment from Reading Bakery Systems. Call us at (01) 610-693-5816 for more information, or click here to contact us online.