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Magnetek, Inc. to Announce Its Fiscal 2011 Second Quarter Results on February 9th

The conference call will be webcast on the Investor Relations page of Magnetek's Web site at www.magnetek.com. Management's presentations will be supplemented by slides appearing on the Company's Web site. Listeners are encouraged to view these materials in conjunction with the call. Replays of the call will be available on the Web site for a limited period of time.

The webcast is also being distributed through the Thomson Reuters StreetEvents Network. Individual investors can listen to the call at www.earnings.com, Thomson Reuters' individual investor portal. Institutional investors can access the call at www.streetevents.com, Thomson Reuters' password-protected event management site.

About Magnetek, Inc.

Magnetek, Inc. is a leading provider of digital power and motion control systems used in overhead material handling, elevator, and energy delivery applications. The Company is North America's largest supplier of Energy Engineered digital drive systems for industrial cranes, hoists and monorails, and provides radio remote controls, motors, and braking and collision avoidance subsystems to North America's foremost overhead material handling crane builders. Magnetek is also the world's largest independent builder of highly integrated digital motion control systems for high-rise, high-speed elevators. In energy delivery, the Company develops and markets digital power inverters that connect renewable energy sources to the utility grid and is a leading independent supplier of digital motion control systems for underground coal mining applications. Magnetek is headquartered in Menomonee Falls, Wis., in the greater Milwaukee area and operates manufacturing facilities in Pittsburgh, Pa., and Canonsburg, Pa., as well as Menomonee Falls.

This news release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, including the timing of the Company's announcement of fiscal 2011 second quarter results. These forward-looking statements are based on the Company's expectations and are subject to risks and uncertainties that cannot be predicted or quantified and are beyond the Company's control. Future events and actual results could differ materially from those set forth in, contemplated by, or underlying these forward-looking statements. Other factors that could cause actual events and results to differ materially from expectations are described in the Company's reports filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission pursuant to the Securities Exchange Act of 1934.

Magnetek, Inc.
Lynn Bostrom, 262-252-2903
Director, Communications
lbostrom@magnetek.com