Manufacturers of Animal Shearing and Clipping Equipment Founded in 1941 as a private Swiss-based company, Heiniger is an international group with subsidiaries in Australia and New Zealand, with distributors all over the world. Heiniger quickly established a reputation as a quality producer of products and services to the agricultural industry. In 1965 the company manufactured the first of now internationally renowned brand of electric animal clippers and sheep shearing machines.Today Heiniger is recognised as the worlds number 1 manufacturer of quality animal clipping and shearing products.