Perfecting the art and science of snack food products and processes. Create and test your product ideas, in-person or virtually, at our Science & Innovation Center.
A real-world environment.
The Science & Innovation Center includes all the process equipment needed to duplicate conditions you might encounter in full-scale production. It’s the best possible way to ensure a successful manufacturing process and gain the confidence of all members of your development team.
A unique place to communicate, collaborate and innovate.
If you were to tour our Science & Innovation Center in Pennsylvania while work was in progress, you’d find it hard to tell who works for which company – Reading Bakery Systems or one of our customers.
That’s because at this fully equipped, licensed food processing facility, a unique spirit of collaboration blurs the line between our team and yours. Goals and challenges are shared, and problems worked out together, so that you leave with confidence that you are bringing the right product to market and taking advantage of the latest technologies to make your commercial scale operation as efficient as possible.
Here at this dedicated R&D facility, you can collaborate discreetly with our experienced
engineers to develop new processes; validate new ingredients; conduct shelf-life studies;
test new machinery and processing techniques; research profitable innovations in mixing,
forming, baking and drying; and produce market samples for evaluation and testing.
With complete process lines for making baked snacks and many other food products, the Science & Innovation Center allows you to test a variety of batch and continuous mixing
concepts as well as forming processes. In addition, you will have access to the Reading Thermal SCORPION® 2 Data Logging Measurement System to help measure and record conditions in the processing oven. The Center also includes private customer conferencing areas, and a Quality Control Lab with analytical equipment to examine the samples that are produced.