Snack Extruder Machine

Versatile snack extruder machines from Reading Bakery Systems offer process flexibility and cost-effective opportunities for snack food manufacturers worldwide.

As a long-time global leader in the snack food industry, Reading Bakery Systems has a unique background in pretzels and snacks. In 1947, Edwin I. Groff founded the company as Reading Pretzel Machinery for the purpose of manufacturing pretzel-processing equipment, including the first commercially-successful automatic pretzel twisting machine.

Today, Reading Bakery Systems, headquartered in Robesonia, PA, also serves the baked snack, pet treat, biscuit, and cookie and cracker industries. We offer the world’s most advanced extruders and other technologically advanced equipment from Thomas L. Green and Reading Pretzel that will help you efficiently produce the tasty snacks that today’s consumers demand.

Low Pressure Extrusion

Create a wide variety of structural and flat extruded shapes with the Reading Pretzel Low Pressure (LP) Extruder. It allows for high-speed production of complex shapes by forcing dough through compression head and die assemblies and is a flexible alternative to conventional dough forming and sheeting systems.

For maximum flexibility, the LP Extruder allows you to create many different snacks on a single production line, including hard pretzel shapes, sticks, braids, crackers, sushki and co-extruded products. Product changeover can be completed in just minutes by exchanging one compression head and die for another.

Extruder dies can be custom designed to make almost any shaped product and can be used with a wide variety of dough in baked, fried and frozen applications. View our most popular designs in the Extruded Die Catalog.

Filled Stick Extrusion

Create sticks filled with soft fillings, such as cheese, chocolate or peanut butter, with the Reading Pretzel Filled Stick Extrusion System. It consists of a Low Pressure Extruder and pump system that combine raw batches of dough and dough filling into a specifically shaped, filled rope.

Quick product changeovers can be accomplished by easily exchanging Extruder die plates and compression head assemblies. The Filling System can also be mated to an existing Extruder by adding the pump stand and changing the die and compression head assembly.

Fried Snack Extrusion

The Reading Pretzel Fried Snack Extruder is capable of producing flexible and innovative product shapes for fried snack extruded products. It has a taller and more open support frame that allows for easy mating with frying equipment and the installation of optional free float sections to discharge cut product into a fryer.

The Extruder manages dough flow for optimum consistency from the time it enters the infeed hopper until it is cut off at the die face by the high-speed bandcutter, which operates at speeds up to 260 cuts per minute. It cleanly slices the extruded dough stream at the die face for a consistent, well defined product.

Test New Machinery and Processing Techniques

If you are new to snack extrusion or would like to explore our many innovative options that are designed to improve your volumes or production processes, consider working with our team in the Reading Bakery Systems Science & Innovation Center.

Click here to contact Reading Bakery Systems online or call (01) 610-693-5816 to learn more about the world’s most advanced snack extruder machines and other innovative commercial baking equipment.