Looking for popped snack manufacturing production line equipment to take advantage of the latest healthy snack food trend? If you are unsure about 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.
What are Popped Snacks?
Popped snacks are thought to be a healthier, more wholesome snack. They can be made of corn, rice, potato, chickpeas, or a blend of several of these, and most are subjected to heat and pressure until they pop. These wholesome snacks are baked, not fried, so they lack oil, but are bursting with flavor.
Popped Snack Systems
Reading Bakery Systems and Incomec, a Belgium-based manufacturer of popping/puffing equipment, have partnered to supply popped snack systems in the United States and Canada.
RBS will supply the required auxiliary equipment, including conveyors, feeders, and seasoners, and 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 (Food processor for popped chips.) This processor converts micropellets and dry ingredients with high free starch levels, such as broken rice, corn grits, and potato-based materials, into crunchy, wavy chips.
- Cerex Processor (Food processor for puffed cakes.) This grain processor is designed to convert untreated grain, pellets, and cereal blends with high free starch levels into unique popped products. Traditional rice cakes, as well as biscuit and cracker-like products of varying sizes, can be produced with quick and simple changes of the forming dies.
- Ingredients are fed through a hopper, volumetrically metered and introduced by a feed-slide into the heated mould.
- The Processor then 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 onto flavoring and packaging
Popped Snack Process
Reading Bakery Systems recently installed a Pellex C+ Processor at our Science & Innovation Center in Sinking Spring, Pennsylvania, for demonstrations and product development testing.
As suppliers of innovative production line equipment for commercial bakeries, Reading Bakery Systems can supply popped snack manufacturing solutions to keep you up to date on baking technology trends. Call us at (01) 610-693-5816, or click here to learn more.