Konecranes Oyj - Major shareholder announcements

Disclosure under Chapter 2, Section 10 of the Securities Market Act

KONECRANES PLC  STOCK EXCHANGE RELEASE  February 24, 2010 at 4.00 pm            


Disclosure under Chapter 2, Section 10 of the Securities Market Act             

Konecranes Plc (ID 0942718-2) has today February 24th 2010, received a          
disclosure under Chapter 2, Section 9 of the Securities Market Act, according to
which the holding of HTT 2 Holding Ltd (ID 2301146-6))in Konecranes has         
increased to over 5 percent. HTT 2 Holding Ltd now holds 3,129,500 Konecranes'  
shares, which is 5.06 percent of Konecranes' shares and votes.                  

Konecranes has a total of 61,895,320 shares. The company has only one class of  
shares and each share entitles to one vote.                                     

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 2009, Group sales totalled EUR 1,671 million. The Group has 9,800     
employees, at more than 545 locations in 43 countries. Konecranes is listed on  
the NASDAQ OMX Helsinki (symbol: KCR1V).                                        

KONECRANES PLC                                                                  


Miikka Kinnunen                                                                 
Director, Investor Relations                                                    




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




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