Snack Foods Processing

If you are looking for high-quality equipment for reliable, efficient processing of crackers, cookies, pretzels, bread snacks, toaster pastries, baked potato chips, baked crisps and other snack foods, consider Reading Bakery Systems’ industry-leading brands – Thomas L. Green and Reading Pretzel.

Reading Bakery Systems has installed hundreds of baking systems worldwide. No matter which type of snack foods you produce, we can help you customize a system that will help you improve your products, streamline your processes, and maximize your profitability.

Mixer Technology

If you are working with doughs that require a two-stage mixing process with a fermentation period in between, such as cracker doughs, the Thomas L. Green Vertical Spindle Mixer can streamline your process. The mixer allows the same dough to be mixed twice but stay in the same trough throughout the process. After the first mixing stage, the dough-filled trough can be repositioned beneath the spindles and mixed again to incorporate the final ingredients.

If you are interested in producing a more consistent dough and finished product, consider our continuous mixing technology. Exact Mixing offers several different mixer models that are appropriate for different types of products. Production volumes range from 50 kg/hour to over 10,000 kg/hour.

One model, the Exact EX Continuous Mixer, is ideal for crackers, pretzels, pizza, pie crusts, pet treats and a variety of other wheat-based snacks. It uniformly mixes products with a variety of dough moisture levels. This mixer offers dough production rates from 100 to 10,000 kg/hour.

Oven Technology

When purchasing commercial ovens, there are a number of factors to consider, such as fuel efficiency, production capacity, ease-of-use, floor space, cost, and whether the oven will help you produce snack foods that will meet your expectations.

The Thomas L. Green PRISM OVEN is a powerful system for uniform baking of products such as hard and soft biscuits, cookies, crackers, English muffins and snack cakes. It employs both direct gas fired and convection oven modules to provide your baked products with uniform quality, color, taste and texture. Customers appreciate this oven’s capacity for repeatable control of time, temperature, humidity and type of heat transfer.

The Reading Pretzel SPECTRUM OVEN® offers radiation, convection and conduction heat transfer options in a single modular design, making it ideally suited to extruded pretzels and snacks, baked snack crisps and pet treats. The single-pass SPECTRUM OVEN®features an easy-to-use system that gives the operator complete control of oven temperature, humidity, and product bake time.

Reading Bakery Systems is also proud to offer customers an extensive range of other equipment for dough handling and forming in between the mixer and the oven.

For extruded and co-extruded products, the Low Pressure (LP) Extruder enables consistent and accurate production of a variety of structural, flat and filled extruded shapes and sticks. Also explore the Thomas L. Green Rotary Molder which efficiently produces high definition, three dimensional rotary molded shapes.

Reading Bakery Systems’ expertise, innovative research and development, and range of snack food processing equipment are unrivaled in the industry. Call us at (01) 610-693-5816 or click here to contact us online to find out how we can help you improve your process.