Installation of the right equipment in your pet treats production line can help you capitalize on the latest trends, increase your efficiency, and reduce costs without sacrificing the quality of your products.
Reading Bakery Systems, headquartered in Robesonia, Pennsylvania, offers more than 120 years of experience in food engineering, which enables us to design and manufacture the world’s most advanced turnkey systems for the production of dry pet food, pet treats, and a wide range of other snack products.
According to a recent report from market research firm Packaged Facts, pet treats continue to provide growth opportunities for manufacturers. Echoing trends in human foods, emerging market trends include specialized treats that are targeted to pets of a specific age group, breed, size/weight, or activity level, and treats containing protein, vegetables and grains.
If you are new to the pet treat industry or would like to explore our many innovative options that are designed to improve your production processes, consider working with our team in the Reading Bakery Systems Science & Innovation Center.
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 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.
Dough Forming Equipment
- Moulded Products: For rotary moulded pet treats, the Thomas L. Green Rotary Moulder efficiently produces high definition, three dimensional shapes by pressing dough into a die roll.
- Extruded Products: 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.
- Sheeted Products: For sheeted pet treats, the Thomas L. Green Sheeter generates a consistent dough sheet, and Gauging Stations ensure a gentle reduction in sheet thickness prior to shape forming. Scrapless geometric shapes and distinct shapes can be formed by the Rotary Cutting Station.
- Guillotine Cutter: For sticks and nuggets, the single-blade Guillotine Cutter is used to cut products uniformly 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 & Drying Solutions
The Reading Pretzel SPECTRUM OVEN® offers a variety of heat transfer combinations in one modular design. The single pass convection baking platform is designed for balanced and consistent baking of pet food and pet treats. Operators control the product moisture removal rate for maximum quality assurance. The addition of an optional SPECTRUM Multi-Pass Dryer will increase oven speed, production throughput and process control.
Take advantage of the latest trends in pet treats and explore the continuous mixing, forming, baking and drying equipment available from Reading Bakery Systems that can help you improve your processes and products. Call us at (01) 610-693-5816 or click here for more information.