Heiden, Inc. is a privately-held custom manufacturing company that was established in Manitowoc, WI by F. "Chet" Heiden in 1958. The company has grown from humble beginnings into a precision custom metal fabrication company with two divisions. Manufacturing is done from a single 70,000 square foot modern manufacturing plant by 65 highly skilled employees. Heiden Inc. is ISO 9001:2008 Certified.

The Metal Fabrication Division provides high-quality precision metal fabricated parts to more than 300 customers in a wide range of industries including Transportation, Construction, HVAC, Restaurant, Agriculture, Pharmaceuticals, Electronics, Marine, and Government. In addition to specializing in Stainless Steel and Aluminum welding, our skilled craftsmen work with a variety of metals in the fabrication process. Our capabilities include Design and Engineering services. Our CAD and drafting software, enable us to take a project from initial concept through final production.

Our Crane Attachments Division manufactures a line of uniquely engineered crane-truck attachments including pole and pipe grapples, log and pulp grapples, railroad grapples, trash grapples, pallet forks, wallboard forks, roof hoppers, dump boxes and clam buckets for cranes. Our high quality attachment products and accessories for cranes are well known in the Construction, Railroad, Trash and Scrap, Roofing and Logging Industries.

Heiden also has a sister company, Jacobson Paint Finishes (JPF), which is made up of highly motivated individual’s committed to providing you with superior paint coatings, assembly, and packaging to satisfy your production needs. They can handle just about any size part including weldments up to 12’x12’x35’ in which they utilize their large media blast room and oven for excellent prep and fast cure times.