Reading Bakery Systems has extensive experience with pet food manufacturing. We offer innovative equipment for sale that will meet your production needs and deliver superior results.
Reading Bakery Systems is a leading manufacturer of bakery equipment.Headquartered in Robesonia, Pennsylvania, our goal is to help customers around the globe make their production processes safer, more flexible and more efficient than ever before.
Our primary brands – Thomas L. Green, Reading Pretzel and Exact Mixing – provide superior mixing, dough handling and forming, baking, and drying equipment that consistently meet the needs of dry pet food, pet treat and baked snack food manufacturers worldwide.
Dough Mixing Equipment
Continuous mixing with the Exact EX Continuous Mixer produces more consistent dough than batch mixing. Continuous mixing can be utilized for both soft and chewy and hard and crunchy pet food and treats.
The process is ideal because the products are both well-mixed and heated to the proper kill temperature in the mixer. The dough can be quickly heated to the kill temperature within a range of 1 degree and then cooled, all without additional dough handling.
For efficient dough handling, a Laytime Conveyor can be installed directly under a continuous or batch mixer. Chunker Rolls, Kibbler Knives, Sheeter Rolls or a Guillotine Cutter can be provided at the Laytime Conveyor discharge to process the dough batch for the downstream equipment.
Dough Forming Equipment
- Moulded Products: For rotary moulded pet food products and 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 food and 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 and Drying Equipment
Reading Pretzel SPECTRUM OVEN® customers benefit from a variety of heat transfer combinations in one modular design. The single-pass convection baking platform features operator-controlled air temperature, circulation speed, exhaust, and moisture removal for reliable, consistent baking of pet treats. Add an optional SPECTRUM Multi-Pass Dryer for faster oven speeds, greater production throughput, and more process control.
Reading Bakery Systems’ expertise, innovative research and development, and the range of pet food manufacturing equipment we have for sale are unparalleled and will meet your production needs. Call us at (01) 610-693-5816 or click here to contact us online.