Thirty days into a new year, and things are back to normal at last at Tolko含羞草研究社檚 Lavington mill.

Eight weeks after an energy transformer issue knocked out power to the mill, a replacement has been sourced, installed and energized.

As of Monday, Jan. 29, the site returned safely to full operations.

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While temporary power was restored fairly quickly after the outage, the lack of full power across the site resulted in some unplanned downtime.

By thinking creatively, Tolko含羞草研究社檚 team used the opportunity to advance a series of maintenance projects that not only kept people working but has the mill looking better than ever.

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