As you evaluate snack food equipment manufacturers for innovative solutions to your production needs, consider Reading Bakery Systems.
Reading Bakery Systems is headquartered in Robesonia, Pennsylvania, and offers more than 120 years of experience in food engineering and manufacturing. We manufacture and install turnkey production systems that can help you improve the taste and appearance of your products, speed up your baking and drying processes, and reduce your operating costs.
We serve customers in the global food 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. No matter which type of snack foods you produce, we are ready to help you meet your process and product challenges.
Multi-Crisp Baked Snacks
The Multi-Crisp Baked Snack System enables you to produce a variety of wheat, potato and corn masa flour crisps on one flexible system. The system can produce between 250-1000 kg/hr of finished product, depending on the number of oven sections after the dough sheeting equipment.
After continuous mixing to ensure even moisture distribution throughout the dough and consistent and appealing product textures, the single-reduction, 2-Roll Sheeter produces a continuous dough sheet that is discharged directly onto the Rotary Cutter infeed conveyor. Product pieces are cut by the Rotary Cutter and then baked and dried in a two pass, convection SPECTRUM OVEN® system.
The flexible 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 snack foods with operator controlled exhaust, air temperature, circulation velocity, and moisture removal rate.
Extruded Pretzel and Snack Systems
Our flexible Low Pressure Extruder allows for the creation of extruded snack products and pretzel shapes and sticks on one production line.
Unique product shapes can be designed into custom made extrusion dies, and product changeover is as simple as exchanging one compression head and die for another one with a different shape. The simple assembly means product changeover takes just minutes.
Incorporate the Guillotine Cutter for precision cutting and product separation of sticks and nuggets before baking, and one of our Omega Dispensers that can handle a wide variety of topping materials, from uniformly sized to fine-grain to irregular sized toppings.
Expanded Snack Systems
If you are looking for additional snack product opportunities using corn, rice and other cereal ingredients, Reading Bakery Systems offers a single screw, high-pressure extrusion system that will expand your capabilities.
The Ribbon Blender creates a homogenous blend of dry ingredients for a variety of recipes that can be run through the extrusion system. It may also be used to evenly distribute oil or increase the moisture level of the dry ingredient blend to promote better processing and higher system throughput.
The High Pressure Extruder produces corn curls and corn ball shapes. The Tumble Dryer reduces the moisture of the product to the proper, finished level, typically 1.5-4%. The Slurry Applicator coats the dried product with an oil-based seasoning blend to add flavors to the final product, such as cheese, butter, or a variety of other savory combinations.
As leading manufacturers of industrial snack food equipment, Reading Bakery Systems offers reliable, cost-effective solutions that will help you produce consistent, high-quality products. Call us at (01) 610-693-5816 or click here to contact us online to learn more about the world’s most advanced commercial baking systems.