Expanded Snack Manufacturing Production Line Equipment

If you are considering a new product or want to explore the capabilities of expanded snack manufacturing, consider state-of-the-art production line equipment from Reading Bakery Systems.

Reading Bakery Systems (RBS) is a long-time global leader in the snack food industry. We serve the biscuit, cookie, cracker, pretzel, potato chip, bread and bun, sweet goods, and pet treat industries. Our range of innovative equipment, expertise, pioneering R&D, and legendary customer service are unrivaled in the industry.

Expanded Snack System

Customers who seek expanded snack manufacturing opportunities using corn, rice, or other cereal ingredients, should consider the cutting-edge RBS Expanded Snack System.

It optimizes output and efficiency to improve your products and your process, enabling you to produce corn curls and corn ball shapes, popcorn, onion rings, and more. Production volumes range from 150-400 kh/hr of pre-seasoned product.

The High-Pressure Extruder mixes and cooks ingredients to produce expanded shapes, including curls, popcorn shapes, rings, and balls. Its flexible design provides for quick and easy changeover of the screws, barrels and product dies, allowing for a wide variety of products with interesting textures and flavors in different shapes.

Another component, the Tumble Dryer, reduces the moisture of the product to the proper, finished level, typically 1.5-4%. For many applications, this dryer is capable of handling product from two extruders at once. Air circulation, speed, and temperature control are automatic, and drying time can be adjusted during operation to ensure quality control.

Looking for a New Product Line?

RBS manufactures and installs turnkey production systems with the latest technology to help customers efficiently and profitably produce a wide range of baked snacks. These systems have the flexibility to integrate batch or continuous mixing, depending on your level of automation.

The Pretzel & Snack System enables you to create a variety of pretzel shapes, sticks, braids, filled sticks, sushki, and bread snacks on one production line.  Product changeover is as simple as exchanging one compression head and die for another one with a different shape. It is capable of producing from 400-1000 kg/hr of finished product.

If you want to manufacture extruded fried snacks, such as the popular fried potato ring product, consider the extrusion-based Fried Potato Ring System. The simple and economical production system includes a Continuous Mixing System and a Low Pressure Extruder, and is capable of producing from 200-1000 kg/hr of finished product.

American and Canadian customers may also be interested in the Popped Snack System designed by RBS and Incomec, a Belgium-based manufacturer of popping/puffing equipment, to create healthy, tasty snacks that are popped, not fried.

For manufacturing additional snack products using corn, rice and other cereal ingredients, incorporate expanded snack manufacturing equipment from Reading Bakery Systems for your production line. Get in touch with us today at (01) 610-693-5816 or contact us online to learn more.