Konecranes Plc - Disclosure under chapter 2, section 10 of the Securities Market Act

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KONECRANES PLC          STOCK EXCHANGE RELEASE  January 14, 2011 at 14:45

Konecranes Plc (ID 0942718-2) has on January 14, 2011, received a disclosure under Chapter 2, Section 9 of the Securities Market Act, according to which the holding of HTT 2 Holding Oy Ab (ID 2301146-6) in Konecranes has exceeded ten percent. HTT 2 Holding Oy Ab held 6,230,568 shares in Konecranes Plc on January 14, 2011, which is 10.00 percent of Konecranes Plc’s shares and votes. HTT 2 Holding Oy Ab is a subsidiary of Hartwall Capital Oy Ab.

K. Hartwall Invest Oy Ab (ID 2104476-6), Fyrklöver-Invest Oy Ab (ID 2104480-3) and Ronnas Invest AG (CH 020.3.028.263.2), who will in practice co-operate with HTT 2 Holding Oy Ab in matters concerning their ownership in Konecranes Plc, have the following ownership in Konecranes Plc:



                   Number of
                  shares
          Percent of shares
          and votes
HTT 2 Holding Oy Ab                   6,230,568                              10.00
K. Hartwall Invest Oy Ab                        31,000                                0.05
Fyrklöver-Invest Oy Ab                        71,400                                0.11
Ronnas Invest AG                        30,000                                0.05


The combined ownership of the shareholders mentioned in the disclosure amounts to 6,362,968 shares, which is 10.22 percent of the shares and votes in Konecranes Plc.

Konecranes Plc has a total of 62,283,127 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

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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 9,800 employees, at more than 545 locations in 43 countries. Konecranes is listed on the NASDAQ OMX Helsinki (symbol: KCR1V).