CK Worldwide Inc. is celebrating 50 years of developing TIG technology and products for the welding industry. “It all started with the simple idea of entrepreneurship; we saw the way torches were being made and thought to ourselves, we can do this better,” said Art Kleppen, owner and founder. To commemorate, the company has made a sizeable endowment to the AWS Foundation in order to create two, annually awarded, TIG welding scholarships.