Efficiency and consistency in pet food mixing, forming and baking are integral to your success. The completely automated production equipment from Reading Bakery Systems can help you take your pet treat operation to the next level.
Reading Bakery Systems, headquartered in Robesonia, Pennsylvania, is a leading manufacturer of bakery equipment. We serve customers in the global food service and bakery industries, providing high-quality systems for the production of crackers, biscuits, baked potato chips, cookies, pretzels, bread snacks, baked crisps, pet treats and more.
With more than 120 years of commercial baking experience, our innovative solutions are designed to meet your production needs. We work side-by-side with customers to meet their process and product challenges with innovative thinking and high quality systems and components.
Reading Bakery Systems offers cost-effective mixing, dough handling and forming, baking, and drying solutions for every part of your pet snack process, with production lines capable of producing 125- 1000 kg/ hour.
Product Mixing Solutions
Create a broad range of pet treats with either batch or Continuous Mixing, depending on your level of automation.
Thomas L. Green Vertical Spindle Mixers feature mixing paddles that are configurable for different products and mixing actions and are rated for capacities up to 2,200 pounds. All mixer functions are controlled from one location, including mixing head movement, paddle operation and mix time.
Continuous Mixing offers some advantages over batch mixing, particularly in the ability to produce more consistent dough. The Exact EX Continuous Mixer is well-suited to both soft/chewy and hard/crunchy pet treats. The system requires less floor space and can be mounted over the forming equipment. Dough delivery can also be automated with a mini-laytime conveyor and chunker or kibbler attachments.
Product Forming Solutions
Whether you are producing pet snacks that are rotary molded, extruded, sheeted, or in stick or nugget form, Reading Bakery Systems offers a solution to meet your requirements.
Rotary Moulded: The Thomas L. Green Rotary Molder produces high definition, three dimensional shapes by pressing dough into a die roll. Engraved brass die rolls are interchangeable and can be supplied with segmented rings for simultaneous, multiple shape production.
Extruded: The Reading Pretzel Low Pressure (LP) Extruder allows you to produce consistent and accurate structural, flat and filled extruded shapes and sticks. Fit with different compression heads and dies to broaden your product range.
Sheeted: The Thomas L. Green Sheeter creates a consistent dough sheet for sheeted pet treat products, and Gauging Stationsensure accurate thickness prior to shape forming. Scrapless geometric shapes and distinct shapes can be formed with the Rotary Cutting Station.
Sticks/Nuggets: The single-blade Reading Pretzel Guillotine Cutter uniformly cuts products 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.
Product Baking and Drying Solutions
The flexible Reading Pretzel SPECTRUM OVEN® offers a variety of heat transfer combinations in a single modular design. This single pass convection baking platform is designed for balanced and consistent baking of pet treats with operator controlled exhaust, air temperature, circulation velocity, and moisture removal rate. Add an optional SPECTRUM Multi-Pass Dryer for faster oven speeds, greater production throughput, and more process control.
Pet food makers come to Reading Bakery Systems for the world’s most advanced production equipment and systems that can be tailored specifically to their needs. Contact us today at (01) 610-693-5816 to find out how we can help you meet your pet food production challenges.