Konecranes Oyj - Annual report/ annual accounts

KONECRANES PLC'S ANNUAL REPORT 2008 PUBLISHED TODAY

KONECRANES PLC  STOCK EXCHANGE RELEASE  February 20, 2009 at 10.30 a.m.         

KONECRANES PLC'S ANNUAL REPORT 2008 PUBLISHED TODAY                             

Konecranes Plc's year 2008 annual report and financial statements for the       
accounting period January 1-December 31, 2008 have been published today in      
Finnish, Swedish and English. Pdf-documents of the reports are available on the 
company's investor site at www.konecranes.com/investor > Reports and            
Presentations.                                                                  

The printed annual report will be available during week 10. Annual reports can  
be ordered by e-mail (ar@konecranes.com), through the web (please see the       
address above) or by calling to +358 (0)20 427 2016.                            

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 2008, Group sales totaled EUR 2,103 million. The Group has 9,900      
employees, in 485 locations in 43 countries. Konecranes is listed on NASDAQ OMX 
Helsinki Ltd (symbol: KCR1V).                                                   

KONECRANES PLC                                                                  


Sanna Päiväniemi                                                                
IR Manager                                                                      




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Sanna Päiväniemi, IR Manager, tel. +358 (0)20 427 2050                          




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konecranes_annualreport2008.pdf