Changes in Konecranes’ investor relations function

Konecranes’ IR Manager Sanna Päiväniemi has informed that she will leave her position at Konecranes to join another company. Ms Päiväniemi will start in her new job December 1, 2009.

For additional information, please contact:
Mikael Wegmüller, Director, Marketing and Communications
E-mail: [email protected] or tel. +358 20 427 2008

This press release is available on our website www.konecranes.com

Konecranes is a world-leading group of Lifting Businesses™, serving a broad range of customers, including manufacturing and process industries, shipyards, ports and terminals. Konecranes provides productivity-enhancing lifting solutions as well as services for lifting equipment and machine tools of all makes. In 2008, Group sales totaled EUR 2,103 million. The Group has 9,700 employees, at 485 locations in 43 countries. Konecranes is listed on the NASDAQ OMX Helsinki Ltd (symbol: KCR1V).