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MIKAELA MACKENZIE / WINNIPEG FREE PRESS Oleksander Ivanov, oil processor, poses for a photo on the factory floor at PTI Transformers in Winnipeg on Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2023. PTI Transformers is one of the only places in the country that makes large transformers, and recently they've hired on a number of folks from Ukraine (where there is a similar factory). For Martin Cash story. Winnipeg Free Press 2023.