As suppliers of production line equipment for baked snack producers, Reading Bakery Systems offers a single screw, high-pressure extrusion system for producing expanded snacks from corn, rice and other cereal ingredients.
Reading Bakery Systems, headquartered in Robesonia, Pennsylvania, understands the dynamic nature of the global baked snack food industry, and has supplied efficient, reliable and cost-effective equipment to customers in the pretzel, baked snack, biscuit, cookie and cracker, and pet treat industries since 1947.
Expanded Snack System
The cutting-edge RBS Expanded Snack System optimizes output and efficiency to improve your products and your process, enabling you to produce corn curls and corn ball shapes, popcorn, onion rings, and more!
The High-Pressure Extruder mixes and cooks ingredients to produce expanded shapes, including curls, popcorn shapes, rings, and balls. Its flexible design provides for quick and easy changeover of the screws, barrels and product dies, allowing for a wide variety of products with interesting textures and flavors in different shapes.
The Tumble Dryer reduces the moisture of the product to the proper, finished level, typically 1.5-4%. For many applications, this dryer is capable of handling product from two extruders at once. Air circulation, speed, and temperature control are automatic, and drying time can be adjusted during operation to ensure quality control.
More Extrusion Options
Low Pressure Extrusion
Create a wide variety of structural and flat extruded shapes with the Reading Pretzel Low Pressure (LP) Extruder, including hard pretzel shapes, sticks, braids, crackers, sushki and co-extruded products.
This Extruder was recently redesigned with augers that deliver more product flow with less work; new lightweight, seamless hoppers that eliminate harborage areas; pre-feed rolls made of food-safe plastics; an improved cutting mechanism with a longer service life; improved guarding for better safety; and a bandcutter cam that is positioned away from the product zone to reduce contamination and provide easier maintenance.
Filled Stick Extrusion
Create sticks filled with soft fillings, such as cheese, chocolate or peanut butter, with the Reading Pretzel Filled Stick Extrusion System. A pump system pushes the soft filling through the compression head and die on the LP Extruder so that it fills the dough stick formed by the Extruder. The product rope can then be cut into equal length sticks or nuggets by the downstream Guillotine Cutter. Quick product changeovers can be accomplished by easily exchanging custom die and compression heads.
Fried Snack Extrusion
The Reading Pretzel Fried Snack Extruder produces flexible and innovative product shapes for fried snack extruded products, such as potato rings, potato sticks, and ethnic noodles. It is capable of processing up to 3,000 pounds (1500 kilograms) of dough per hour. The extruded product is delivered to the fryer by a belted conveyor or by incorporating an optional oil “free float” conveying section.
As leading global suppliers, Reading Bakery Systems manufactures flexible and cost-effective production line equipment for expanded snacks. To explore the capabilities of our equipment, contact Reading Bakery Systems today at (01) 610-693-5816 or contact us online.