Disclosure under Chapter 2, Section 10 of the Securities Market Act

Konecranes Plc (ID 0942718-2) has today September 18th 2009, received a disclosure under Chapter 2, Section 9 of the Securities Market Act, according to which the holding of the Ilmarinen Mutual Pension Insurance Company (ID 0107638-1) in Konecranes decreased below 5 percent. Ilmarinen now holds 3,176,689 Konecranes’ shares which is 4.92% of Konecranes’ shares and votes.

Konecranes has a total of 61,843,720 shares. The company has only one class of shares and each share entitles to one vote.

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 totalled EUR 2,103 million. The Group has 9,700 employees, at more than 485 locations in 43 countries. Konecranes is listed on the NASDAQ OMX Helsinki (symbol: KCR1V).

KONECRANES PLC

Sanna Päiväniemi
IR Manager

FURTHER INFORMATION
Konecranes Plc
Sanna Päiväniemi, IR Manager, tel. +358 (0)20 427 2050

DISTRIBUTION
NASDAQ OMX Helsinki Ltd
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