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

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Konecranes Plc (ID 0942718-2) has on August 30, 2010, received a disclosure under Chapter 2, Section 9 of the Securities Market Act, according to which the holding of BlackRock, Inc. (USA Tax ID 32-0174421) in Konecranes has decreased below 10 percent. BlackRock, Inc. held 6,192,571 Konecranes’ shares on August 24, 2010, which is 9.99 percent of Konecranes’ shares and votes.

Konecranes has a total of 62,002,120 shares. The company has only one class of shares and each share entitles to one vote.

KONECRANES PLC

Miikka Kinnunen
Director, Investor Relations

FURTHER INFORMATION
Konecranes Plc
Miikka Kinnunen, Director, Investor Relations, tel. +358 (0)20 427 2050

DISTRIBUTION
NASDAQ OMX Helsinki Ltd
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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 2009, Group sales totalled EUR 1,671 million. The Group has 9,600 employees, at more than 545 locations in 43 countries. Konecranes is listed on the NASDAQ OMX Helsinki (symbol: KCR1V).