History
The static mixer traces its origins to an invention for a mixing device filed on Nov. 29, 1965 by the Arthur D. Little Company. This device was the housed-elements type and was licensed to the Kenics Corporation and marketed as the Kenics Motionless Mixer. Today, the Kenics brand is owned by Robbins & Myers, Inc. The plate type static mixer patent was issued on November 24, 1998 to Robert W. Glanville of Westfall Manufacturing; however, there are also other suppliers of static mixers, including Sulzer Chemtech Ltd, Verdermix, Koflo Corporation, Statiflo and KOMAX Systems Inc.
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