Vacon - Company Announcement

Invitation to Vacon's results briefing and teleconference

Vacon Plc, Stock Exchange Release, 16 October 2012 at 1.35 pm (EET)

Vacon will publish its Interim Report January - September 2012 on Wednesday, 24
October, 2012 at around 9.30 am Finnish time.

A briefing for the financial analysts and media will be held on the same day at
Pörssitalo, Fabianinkatu 14 A, 2nd floor, Helsinki (entrance via NASDAQ OMX
Helsinki's reception) at 11:30 am Finnish time (EET) or 10:30 CET. Please inform
Maija Suutarinen of your participation at maija.suutarinen(at)vacon.com no later
than 19 October, 2012.

A dial-in conference in for investors and investment analysts will be held at
3.00 pm (EET) on 24 October 2012. President and CEO Vesa Laisi and Eriikka
Söderström, CFO will participate in the conference. Please call
+358(0)9 2310 1619 (Finland Toll) or +44(0)20 3106 7162 (UK Toll) and request to
be connected to the Vacon call (Confirmation code 8112948). A recording of the
conference will be available for seven days at (0)9 2310 1650 (Finland Toll) or
+44 (0)20 3427 0598 (UK Toll) and access code 8112948.

  * Webcast URL: http://www.media-server.com/m/p/ne84bm2n

The presentation material will be available before the start of the briefing at
the Vacon's website www.vacon.com > Investors > Publications and releases.

Vacon Plc

Further information:

Sebastian Linko, Director, Corporate Communications and Investor Relations,
Vacon Plc, tel. +358 (0)40 8371 634, email sebastian.linko(at)vacon.com

Vacon in brief:

Vacon is driven by a passion to develop, manufacture and sell the best AC drives
and inverters in the world - and to provide efficient life-cycle services for
its customers. Our AC drives offer optimum process control and energy efficiency
for electric motors. Vacon inverters are a key component in producing energy
from renewable sources. Vacon has R&D and production units in Europe, Asia and
North America, and sales companies in 27 countries. Vacon also has sales and
service representatives in almost 90 countries. In 2011, Vacon had revenues of
EUR 380.9 million and globally employed 1,500 people. The shares of Vacon Plc
(VAC1V) are quoted on the main list of the Helsinki stock exchange (NASDAQ OMX
Helsinki).

Driven by Drives, www.vacon.com

Distribution:

NASDAQ OMX Helsinki
Main Media
Financial Supervisory Authority


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