Vacon - Major shareholder announcements

Ahlström Capital Oy and DutchCo Gamma Holding B.V.holding in Vacon Plc

Vacon Plc, Stock Exchange Release, 29 December 2011 at 9.45 am (EET)

This is a notice under the Securities Market Act of Finland Chapter 2 Section
10:

Ahlström Capital Oy (business ID 1670034-3) and its subsidiary Karhula
Osakeyhtiö (business ID 0135950-3) have sold their holding in Vacon Plc to
DutchCo Gamma Holding B.V., a fully owned subsidiary of Ahlström Capital Oy.
DutchCo Gamma Holding B.V. has informed us that the holding of shares in Vacon
Plc has exceeded 1/5 (20 %) due to the abovementioned share purchase.

Ahlström Capital has informed us that its direct holding of shares in Vacon Plc
has fallen below 1/20 (5 %) due to the share transaction.

Vacon Plc has only one class of shares and the total number of shares is
15,295,000. Each share is entitled to one vote.

VACON PLC

Further information:

  * President and CEO, Vesa Laisi, Phone +358 (0)40 837 1510, e-mail
    vesa.laisi(at)vacon.com
  * Director, Corporate Communications and Investor Relations, Sebastian Linko,
    +358 (0)40 837 1634, 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. We have R&D and production units in Finland, the USA,
China and Italy, and sales & service offices in 27 countries. In 2010, Vacon had
revenues of EUR 338 million and globally employed 1,300 people. The shares of
Vacon Plc (VAC1V) are quoted on the main list of the Helsinki stock exchange.

www.vacon.com

Distribution:
NASDAQ OMX Helsinki
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Financial Supervisory Authority

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