Trends in Baking Industry

If you are interested in producing innovative snack products and maximizing your profitability, discover the latest trends in the bakery industry and state-of-the-art equipment from Reading Bakery Systems.

Headquartered in Robesonia, Pennsylvania, Reading Bakery Systems (RBS) has been a leader in industrial baking systems and technology for 125 years. We manufacture technologically advanced commercial bakery equipment, including continuous mixing equipment, which accurately delivers dough to your snack production line, and the world’s most advanced commercial oven systems.

Direct Expanded Snacks

Direct expanded snacks are so-named because they are formed on an extruder and expand immediately once they emerge from the die. Only drying or frying is required to reduce the moisture content and prepare them for consumption.

Direct expanded snacks are puffy, crunchy snacks made primarily from cereal ingredients, such as rice, corn and potato. The ready-to-eat snacks come in a variety of simple shapes, including curls, balls, rings, animals and stars, and are often textured and coated with salt, spices, or cheese to make them tasty and fun. 

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.

Fried Potato Ring System

The RBS extrusion-based Fried Potato Ring System is ideal for the flexible, efficient, high volume production of extruded fried snacks, such as the popular fried potato ring product. It is capable of producing finished product at 200-1000 kg/hour.

Stackable Chips System

The modular Stackable Fried Chip System is designed to reliably and efficiently produce fabricated stackable chips. A single-reduction, 2-Roll Sheeter produces a continuous dough sheet that is discharged directly onto the Rotary Cutter infeed conveyor.  The die roll on the Rotary Cutter separates the dough sheet into distinct shapes.

Popped Snack System

RBS will supply the required auxiliary equipment, including conveyors, feeders, and seasoners, as well as provide sales support, installation and technical support for the Popped Snack Systems.

Incomec will supply a Pellex C+ or Cerex Processor depending on the final product you wish to produce. The Popped Snack line is also scalable, so processors can always be added to your line as your business grows.

  • Pellex C+Processor: The Pellex C+ Processor produces light, crunchy chip products. It is capable of converting micropellets and dry ingredients with high free starch levels, such as broken rice, corn grits and potato-based materials, into a crunchy and wavy chip.
  • Cerex Processor: The Cerex Processor is a grain processor that is designed to convert untreated grain, pellets and cereal blends with high free starch levels into unique popped products. It creates puffed rice cakes, cracker and biscuit type products of varying sizes that can be produced with quick and simple changes of the forming dies.

If you are interested in taking advantage of the latest trends in the commercial baking industry, explore how Reading Bakery Systems’ unrivaled range of equipment can help you improve your production process. Call us at (01) 610-693-5816 or contact us online.