Company History

Reading Bakery Systems
Reading Bakery Systems has been a leader in the snack food industry for more than a century, and continues to provide innovative solutions to snack food manufacturers worldwide. Our engineering and design team utilizes 3-dimensional modeling technology to successfully create systems that are simpler, easier to install, and more efficient than ever before. And our sales and technical services group engages and supports our customers with solutions that will keep them competitive in a very challenging food market.

Reading Bakery offers Thomas L. Green and Reading Pretzel processing lines capable of producing a wide range of snack products at production outputs of 200–10,000 kg/hr. Products include cookies, crackers, fabricated potato chips, pretzels and bread snack products. Our innovative Exact Continuous Mixing solutions also reach into several other dynamic food industries, including baked snacks, sweet goods, pizza, tortillas, pet treats, and bread and buns.

The headquarters of Reading Bakery Systems is located in Robesonia, Pennsylvania, an hour and a half drive northwest of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The majority of all Thomas L. Green, Reading Pretzel and Exact Mixing equipment is manufactured at the main plant in Robesonia. We also have a smaller manufacturing plant in Indianapolis, Indiana, where The Thomas L. Green Company was located for 100 years.

We like to say that innovation is in our DNA. For over a century, our business has thrived on a relentless search for ways to improve the systems that make our customers successful. This inherent drive for excellence, coupled with our thoughtful, research-based scientific approach, makes us the kind of partner you'll need to ensure your product's success.

Thomas L. Green
Thomas L. Green has been a trusted partner to the biscuit and cracker industry for over 118 years, and merged with Reading Bakery Systems in 2001. Customers around the world continue to trust that Thomas L. Green equipment delivers reliable production systems for saltine crackers, toaster pastries, fabricated potato chips, snack crackers and cookies. The range of oven solutions from Thomas L. Green has also been applied to brownies, pancakes, English muffins, biscotti and more. New innovations are integrated with automated dough feed equipment, continuous mixing and the latest sheeting and laminating technologies.

Reading Pretzel
Our pretzel and snack expertise dates back to 1947 when E.I. Groff and H.S. Gipe partnered in the founding of Reading Pretzel Machinery and introduced the first commercially-successful automatic pretzel twisting machine. E. Terry Groff joined his father at Reading Pretzel Machinery in 1974, and years of patient innovation led to other problem solvers that are still with us today, such as low pressure extrusion, ultrasonic cutters, hot cookers, 2-pass baking systems, variable heat-flux ovens and multi-pass dryers. Today, Reading Pretzel continues to be an international leader and innovator of pretzel and snack systems.

Exact Continuous Mixing Equipment
Over the last 25 years, Exact Mixing has earned a reputation as one of the world's most innovative developers of continuous mixing solutions. In 2008, they joined Reading Bakery Systems and continue to bring improved efficiency and food safety to an ever-widening range of customers. Continuous Mixing is now a proven solution in the baked snack, sweet goods, pizza, tortilla, pet treat, and bread and bun industries.

Reading Thermal
Reading Thermal has been focused on measuring and understanding the baking process for over 20 years. We manufacture and support the SCORPION® 2 Data Logging Measurement System with Smart Sensor Technology; a baker-friendly system with intuitive software to measure and plot key baking components of temperature, humidity, air velocity and heat flux. This powerful diagnostic tool has become an industry standard for understanding – and improving – the baking process by providing crystal clear data to empower decisions.

Reading Bakery Systems' expertise, innovative research and development and range of equipment is unmatched in the industry. Whether the end product is baked or fried, we offer unit machines and turnkey systems that can reliably produce high volumes of cookie, cracker or snack products and support the installations long after the sale.

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