Specialist Industrial Pet Food Equipment

Reading Bakery Systems, headquartered in Robesonia, Pennsylvania, is a world-leading specialist in the manufacture of industrial dry pet food equipment. Our experience with pet food comes from more than a century of developing proven solutions in the global snack food industry.

Reading Bakery Systems proudly serves the biscuit, cookie, cracker, baked snack, pretzel and pet food industries. Our innovative research and development, technical expertise, and range of equipment are unmatched.

Continuous Mixing Technology

If your pet food 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 over batch mixing by producing more consistent dough with less labor and energy.

The Exact EX Continuous Mixer is ideal for both soft, chewy and hard, crunchy pet food. It uniformly mixes products with a variety of dough moisture levels.This mixer offers dough production rates from 100 to 10,000 kg/hour.

Dough Forming Solutions

Reading Bakery Systems offers a comprehensive range of innovative forming equipment that is ideal for pet food and pet treat manufacture:

  • Extruded and co-extruded products: The Reading Pretzel Low Pressure (LP) Extruder offers a flexible, lower cost alternative to conventional dough forming and sheeting systems. Create pet foods and treats in a variety of structural and flat extruded and co-extruded shapes and sticks. Product changeover is simple and quick.
  • Sheeted products: The Thomas L. Green 3-Roll Sheeter features two forcing rolls that draw the dough into the pressurized cavity between the three rolls. The dough is compacted and discharged as a continuous sheet. Gauging Stations will ensure accurate thickness prior to shape forming. The Thomas L. Green Rotary Cutting Station accurately and continuously cuts discrete product shapes out of a single dough sheet.
  • Moulded products: Use the Thomas L. Green Rotary Moulder to press dough into a die roll and produce high definition, three dimensional shapes for your pet treats.Engraved brass die rolls are interchangeable and can be supplied with segmented rings for simultaneous, multiple shape production.
  • Nuggets and sticks: The Reading Pretzel Guillotine Cutter is designed to uniformly cut products before or after baking. It can be operated in a continuous mode at up to 175 cuts per minute, or a cycle mode at speeds up to 50 cuts per minute, while operators control the cut mode and speed from a local control panel.

World’s Most Advanced Commercial Oven Systems

Reading Pretzel SPECTRUM OVEN® customers benefit from a variety of heat transfer combinations in one modular design. The single-pass convection baking platform features operator-controlled air temperature, circulation speed, exhaust, and moisture removal for reliable, consistent baking of pet treats. The addition of an optional SPECTRUM Multi-Pass Dryer will increase oven speed, production throughput and process control.

We have installed hundreds of oven systems worldwide. Whether you bake pet foods and treats, biscuits, cookies, crackers, pretzels, potato chips, bread snacks, or toaster pastries, we can help you customize a commercial oven that meets your unique needs.

As a specialist in industrial dry pet food equipment, Reading Bakery Systems can help you perfect your manufacturing process and your products and increase profitability. Call us at (01) 610-693-5816 or click here to contact us online to learn more.