As suppliers of production line equipment for commercial bakeries, Reading Bakery Systems manufactures high-quality equipment for the reliable, efficient production of crackers, cookies, pretzels, bread snacks, baked potato chips, baked crisps and other snack foods.
Reading Bakery Systems has a unique background in pretzels and snacks. The company was founded in 1947 as Reading Pretzel Machinery to manufacture pretzel-processing equipment, including the first commercially-successful automatic pretzel twisting machine.
Today, we are a global leader in the snack food industry, offering the world’s most technologically advanced equipment from Thomas L. Green and Reading Pretzel to help you efficiently produce the tasty snacks today’s consumers demand.
Continuous Mixing
To produce a consistent dough and finished product, consider our Continuous Mixing technology. Exact Mixing offers several mixer models that are appropriate for different types of products.
Our most versatile mixer is the Exact Mixing MX Continuous Mixer. It is well suited for a wide range of products including pizza, cookies, snacks, batters, icings, and pastes. It is also an ideal first stage mixer for processes that require creme up and pre-blend stages. This mixer offers dough production rates from 500 to 6,000 kg/hour.
Dough Handling
RBS is proud to offer customers an extensive range of equipment for dough handling and forming in between the mixer and the oven.
For extruded and co-extruded products, the Reading Pretzel Low Pressure (LP) Extruder enables consistent and accurate production of a variety of structural, flat and filled extruded shapes and sticks.
The Thomas L. Green Rotary Moulder efficiently produces high definition, three dimensional rotary molded biscuits, cookies and pet treats.
For sheeted snacks, the Thomas L. Green Sheeter creates a consistent dough sheet, and Gauging Stations ensure accurate thickness prior to forming. Form scrapless geometric shapes and distinct shapes with the Rotary Cutting Station.
Baking & Drying
The Reading Pretzel SPECTRUM OVEN® offers exceptional flexibility for baking a variety of snack products. It features:
- Radiation, convection and conduction heat transfer options
- Separate heating zones for more precise control
- Repeatable control of time, temperature, humidity and type of heat transfer
- Stainless steel interior construction
A separate optional Reading Pretzel Multi-Pass Dryer provides faster oven speeds, greater production throughput, and more process control. The Dryer efficiently reduces product core moistures, improving overall quality and storage characteristics.
Multi-Crisp Baked Snacks
The Multi-Crisp Baked Snack System allows you to produce a variety of wheat, potato, rice and corn masa flour crisps on one flexible system. The system can produce between 250-1000 kg/hr of finished product, with throughput capacity increasing as oven zones are added after dough sheeting equipment.
After continuous mixing to ensure even moisture distribution throughout the dough and consistent and appealing product textures, product pieces are cut by the Rotary Cutter interchangeable die rolls and then baked and dried in a convection SPECTRUM OVEN® system.
Click here to get in touch with Reading Bakery Systems online or call (01) 610-693-5816 for more information. We are suppliers of the world’s most advanced equipment for your snack production lines.