Konecranes Oyj - Major shareholder announcements

KONECRANES PLC - DISCLOSURE UNDER CHAPTER 9, SECTION 5 OF THE SECURITIES MARKET ACT

KONECRANES PLC  STOCK EXCHANGE RELEASE  February 6, 2015 at 9.00

Konecranes (ID 0942718-2) has on February 5, 2015, received a disclosure under
Chapter 9, Section 5 of the Securities Market Act, according to which the
holding of Harris Associates L.P. in Konecranes Plc has decreased below 5
percent. Harris Associates L.P. held 3,158,600 Konecranes Plc's shares on
February 4, 2015, which is 4.99 percent of Konecranes Plc's shares and votes. 

Konecranes Plc has a total of 63,272,342 shares. The company has only one class
of shares and each share entitles to one vote. 

KONECRANES PLC


Miikka Kinnunen
Director, Investor Relations


FURTHER INFORMATION
Konecranes Plc
Miikka Kinnunen, Director, Investor Relations, tel. +358 (0)20 427 2050



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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 2014, Group sales totaled EUR 2,011 million. The Group has 12,000
employees at 600 locations in 48 countries. Konecranes is listed on the NASDAQ
OMX Helsinki (symbol: KCR1V).