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Konecranes Plc: Notice pursuant to the Finnish Securities Market Act, Chapter 9, Section 10

KONECRANES PLC  STOCK EXCHANGE RELEASE  JANUARY 17, 2018 at 18:00 EET

Konecranes Plc: Notice pursuant to the Finnish Securities Market Act, Chapter 9, Section 10

Konecranes has on January 17, 2018, received a notification under Chapter 9, Section 5 of the Securities Market Act, according to which the holding of BlackRock Investment Management (UK) Limited in Konecranes Plc’s shares and votes has fallen below 10 percent. On January 16, 2018, Blackrock, Inc.’s total holding through shares and financials instruments amounted to 14.21 percent of Konecranes Plc’s shares and votes.

Total positions of BlackRock, Inc.:

	% of shares and voting rights (A)		% of shares and voting rights through financial instruments (B)		Total of both in % (A+B)		Total number of shares and voting rights of issuer
Resulting situation of the date on which the threshold was crossed of reached	12.95	%	1.26	%	14.21	%	78,921,906
Position of previous notification	13.82	%	1.07	%	14.90	%

Notified details of the resulting situation on the date on which the threshold was crossed or reached:

A: shares and voting rights

Class/type of shares ISIN code	Number of shares and voting rights	Number of shares and voting rights	% of shares and voting rights	% of shares and voting rights
	Direct (SMA 9:5)	Indirect (SMA 9:6 and 9:7)	Direct (SMA 9:5)	Indirect (SMA 9:6 and 9:7)
FI0009005870	-	10,222,003	-	12.95	%
SUBTOTAL A	-	10,222,003	-	12.95	%

B: Financial instruments according to SMA 9:6a

Type of financial instrument	Expiration date	Exercise/Conversion Period	Physical or cash settlement	Number of shares and voting rights	% of shares and voting rights
Securities Lent	N/A	N/A	Physical	236,452	0.29	%
CFD	N/A	N/A	Cash	763,996	0.96	%
SUBTOTAL B				1,000,448	1.26	%

Additional information:

Name	% of shares and voting rights		% of shares and voting rights through financial instruments		Total of both
BlackRock Investment Management (UK) Limited	9.93	%	1.13	%	11.06	%

KONECRANES PLC

Miikka Kinnunen
Vice President, Investor Relations


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Mr. Miikka Kinnunen, Vice President, 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 of all makes. In 2016, Group (comparable combined company) sales totaled EUR 3,278 million. The Group has 16,600 employees at 600 locations in 50 countries. Konecranes shares are listed on the Nasdaq Helsinki (symbol: KCR).


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