With more than 120 years of expertise and an unmatched range of equipment for manufacturing stackable potato chips, customers rely on Reading Bakery Systems’ technologically advanced mixing, forming and cutting equipment to improve their efficiency, quality, volume and profitability.
Reading Bakery Systems (RBS), headquartered in Robesonia, Pennsylvania, serves customers in the global snack food industry, providing high-quality equipment for the production of stackable potato chips, baked potato chips, baked crisps, and other products such as crackers, biscuits, cookies, pretzels, bread snacks, pet treats and more.
Visit with our team at the RBS Science & Innovation Center in Sinking Spring, Pennsylvania, USA, to test your products and processes on our equipment. At this fully licensed food production facility, you can perfect your process using the most advanced technology available today.
Continuous Mixing Equipment
Continuous mixing offers customers a number of advantages over batch mixing depending upon their products, processes, recipes, and other factors. The biggest advantage in all applications is the ability to produce more consistent dough and, therefore, a more consistent finished product.
Designed specifically for the stackable fried chip process, the Exact FX Continuous Mixer evenly distributes moisture throughout the potato dough by means of a specialized liquid injection system and a revolutionary mixer shaft design.
Continuous mixing minimizes the time between the mixer and 2-Roll Sheeter, eliminates batch cycle variations, and creates consistent and appealing product textures. With this recipe-driven system, final product quality is assured and is fully repeatable.
Dough Handling, Sheeting & Cutting
The dough transport conveyor ensures that the dough makes it from the mixer to the 2-Roll Sheeter hopper on a first-in, first-out basis. An optional metal detector can be provided to the dough feed system to protect the dough sheeting rolls. Metal detectors monitor the final product before packaging for consumer protection.
The Thomas L. Green 2-Roll Sheeter creates a consistent dough sheet that is discharged directly onto the Rotary Cutter infeed conveyor. Its rolls are provided with unions for chilled water supply to maintain roll surface temperatures during production.
The die roll on the Thomas L. Green Rotary Cutter separates the dough sheet into distinct shapes. The Rotary Cutter can be designed with two die rolls to allow a more efficient changeover between product types or sizes.
Stackable Chip System
Reading Bakery Systems offers a modular Stackable Chip System to reliably and efficiently produce fabricated stackable fried chips. The system includes a specialized FX Continuous Mixing System, 2-Roll Sheeter and Rotary Cutting Station and can produce between 500-1,000 kg/hr depending on the fryer capacity (not supplied by RBS).
When looking for manufacturing equipment that will improve your stackable potato chips production processes and meet growing demands for your products, Reading Bakery Systems offers premium-quality, affordable solutions. Call us at (01) 610-693-5816 or click here to find out more.