Reading Bakery Systems offers equipment for every part of your pet treat manufacturing process, including continuous mixing, forming, baking and drying solutions.
Reading Bakery Systems (RBS), 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 pet treats, dry pet food and a wide range of snack products.
If you are new to the pet treat industry or interested in exploring methods of improving your volumes or production processes, consider working with our team in the Reading Bakery Systems Science & Innovation Center.
The Center provides access to our unrivaled expertise in manufacturing, research and development, quality assurance, equipment design, production management, and process development, as well as assistance in die design and custom equipment development.
Test the latest new machinery and processing techniques, change and test ingredients in your products, and develop new products to improve the quality of your pet treats and increase your profitability.
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 food and 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 Solutions
Whether your pet treats are rotary moulded, extruded, sheeted, or in stick or nugget form, RBS has a solution that is designed and engineered to meet your requirements.
Rotary Moulded: The Thomas L. Green Rotary Moulder 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 enables you to produce consistent and accurate structural, flat and filled extruded shapes and sticks. Fit the Extruder with different compression heads and dies to expand your product range.
Sheeted: The Thomas L. Green Sheeter creates a consistent dough sheet for sheeted pet treats, and Gauging Stations ensure 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 push of a button.
Baking & Drying Solutions
With the Reading Pretzel SPECTRUM OVEN®, customers benefit from 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 treats. Operators control the product moisture removal rate for maximum quality assurance. A separate dryer may be combined with the oven zone to create a space efficient two-pass baking chamber.
Take advantage of cost-effective pet treat equipment from Reading Bakery Systems that can handle all aspects of your manufacturing process. Call us at (01) 610-693-5816 or click here for more information.