The innovative production line equipment available from Reading Bakery Systems is capable of handling all aspects of your baked potato chips and baked crisps manufacturing process.
Reading Bakery Systems, headquartered in Robesonia, Pennsylvania, is a long-time global leader in the snack food industry. We manufacture technologically advanced commercial baking equipment that is designed and engineered to help customers around the globe meet their production demands.
Mixing Solutions
Continuous mixing offers a number of advantages over batch mixing. The biggest advantage is the ability to produce more consistent dough and, therefore, a more consistent finished product.
The Exact FX Continuous Mixer distributes small amounts of moisture evenly into large amounts of powder. This is accomplished by lifting the powder into atomized liquids.
This mixer can be used to produce potato-, corn- and rice-based products and is ideal for hydroscopic powders such as the potato flakes used to make fabricated potato chips or any other low moisture mixtures. It prevents the creation of wet and dry areas in the final dough and ensures a great texture.
The FX Continuous Mixer eliminates the chance of contamination because the dough is never exposed to the environment, and features dough production rates from 100 to 1,250 kg/hour.
Dough Forming Solutions
The single-reduction Thomas L. Green 2-Roll Sheeter will produce a continuous and consistent dough sheet ready for dough forming or further reduction and discharge it directly onto the Rotary Cutting Station infeed conveyor.
Thickness of the sheet is controlled by the distance between the two powered stainless steel rolls (which is adjustable). The rolls compress the dough into a single sheet with consistent characteristics and thickness. An optional 2-Roll Sheeter can be provided to produce chips with a ridged appearance and crinkled product texture.
The Thomas L. Green Rotary Cutting Station accurately and continuously cuts product shapes out of a single dough sheet and reroutes scrap dough to the dough handling system for reuse. This system can be designed with two die rolls to accommodate complex shape adjustment and can be quickly changed to increase product flexibility.
Oven Solutions
The Reading Pretzel SPECTRUM OVEN® is one of the world’s most advanced commercial oven systems and has helped to make us a leader in the pretzel, crisp, bread snack and potato snack industries.
Customers benefit from a variety of heat transfer combinations in one modular design. The convection baking and drying platform is designed for balanced and consistent baking of potato chips. Operators control the product moisture removal rate for maximum quality assurance. A dryer may be combined with the oven zone to create a space efficient two-pass baking chamber.
Reading Bakery Systems manufactures industrial equipment that will meet the demands of your potato chips production line and help you produce a better quality finished product. Call us at (01) 610-693-5816 or click here to learn more.