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

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Konecranes Plc (ID 0942718-2) has on December 20, 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 exceeded 10 percent. BlackRock held 6,239,140 Konecranes’ shares on December 17, 2010, which is 10.06 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

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

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 totaled EUR 1,671 million. The Group has 9,800 employees, at 545 locations in 43 countries. Konecranes is listed on NASDAQ OMX Helsinki Ltd (symbol: KCR1V).

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NASDAQ OMX Helsinki Ltd
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