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Exhibit 3.1

Final Version

AMENDED AND RESTATED

CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION

OF

MAGNETEK, INC.

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FIRST: The name of the Corporation is: Magnetek, Inc.

SECOND: Its Registered Office in the State of Delaware is to be located at 1209 Orange Street, in the City of Wilmington, County of New Castle, Zip Code 19801. The Registered Agent in charge thereof is The Corporation Trust Company.

THIRD: The purpose of the Corporation is to engage in any lawful act or activity for which corporations may be organized under the General Corporation Law of Delaware.

FOURTH: The amount of the total authorized capital stock of the Corporation is One Thousand (1,000) Shares of Common Stock with a par value of one cent ($0.01) each.

FIFTH: The Corporation shall have perpetual existence.

SIXTH: Unless and to the extent that the By-laws of the Corporation shall so require, the election of directors of the Corporation need not be by written ballot.

SEVENTH: In furtherance and not in limitation of the powers conferred by the laws of the State of Delaware, the Board of Directors is expressly authorized and empowered to make, alter and repeal the Bylaws of the Corporation, subject to the power of the stockholders of the Corporation to alter or repeal any bylaw made by the Board of Directors.

EIGHTH: In all elections for directors, every stockholder entitled to vote shall have the right to vote, in person or by proxy, the number of shares of stock owned by him or her, for as many persons as there are directors to be elected.


NINTH: Unless the Corporation consents in writing to the selection of an alternative forum, the Court of Chancery of the State of Delaware (the “Selected Court”) (or, in the event that the Selected Court does not have jurisdiction, the United States District Court for the State of Delaware) shall, to the fullest extent permitted by law, be the sole and exclusive forum for (a) any derivative action or proceeding brought by or in the name of the Corporation, (b) any action asserting a claim of breach of a fiduciary duty owed by any director, officer, employee, agent or affiliate of the Corporation to the Corporation or to the Corporation’s stockholders, (c) any action arising pursuant to any provision of the Delaware General Corporation Law or the Certificate of Incorporation or these By-Laws (as may be amended from time to time) or (d) any action asserting a claim against the Corporation governed by the internal affairs doctrine. If any action the subject matter of which is within the scope of the preceding sentence is filed in a court other than a court located in the State of Delaware (a “Foreign Action”) in the name of any stockholder, such stockholder shall be deemed to have consented to (i) personal jurisdiction of the state and federal courts located within the State of Delaware in connection with any action brought in any such court to enforce the preceding sentence and (ii) having service of process made upon such stockholder in any such action by service upon such stockholder’s counsel in the Foreign Action as agent for such stockholder.

TENTH: Any action required to be taken at a meeting of the stockholders may be taken without a meeting if a consent in writing, setting forth the action so taken, shall be signed by all of the stockholders entitled to vote with respect to the subject matter thereof.

ELEVENTH: The liability of the directors for monetary damages shall be eliminated to the fullest extent under applicable law. Any repeal or modification of this provision shall be prospective and shall not affect the rights under this provision in effect at the time of the alleged occurrence of any act or omission to act giving rise to liability or indemnification.

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