Vacon - Company Announcement

Invitation to Vacon's results briefing and teleconference

Vacon Plc, Stock Exchange Release, 17 April 2012 at 9.15 am (EET)

Vacon will publish its Interim Report January - March 2012 on Wednesday, 25
April, 2012 at around 9.30 a.m. Finnish time.

A briefing for the financial analysts and media will be held on the same day at
Scandic Simonkenttä (Tapiola Meeting Room), address Simonkatu 9, 00100 Helsinki,
at 11:30 am Finnish time (EET) or 10:30 CET. The briefing will be held in
Finnish. Please inform Maija Suutarinen of your participation at
maija.suutarinen(at)vacon.com no later than 23 April, 2012.

A dial-in conference in English for investors and investment analysts will be
held at 3.00 pm (EET) on 25 April 2012. President and CEO Vesa Laisi and Eriikka
Söderström, CFO will participate in the conference. Please call
+358(0)9 6937 9543 (Finland Toll) or +44(0)20 3364 5381 (UK Toll) and request to
be connected to the Vacon call (Confirmation code 6987142). A recording of the
conference will be available for seven days at +358 (0)9 2310 1650 (Finland
Toll) or +44 (0)20 7111 1244 (UK Toll) and access code 6987142.

  * Webcast URL: http://www.media-server.com/m/p/d466e62a

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

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 customers with efficient product
life-cycle services. Our AC drives offer optimum process control and energy
efficiency for electric motors. Vacon inverters play a key role when energy is
produced from renewable sources. Vacon has production and R&D facilities in
Europe, Asia and North America, and sales and service operations in nearly 90
countries. In 2011, Vacon's revenues amounted to EUR 380.9 million, and the
company employed globally approximately 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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