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Konecranes Plc: Notice pursuant to the Finnish Securities Market Act, Chapter 9, Section 10

Konecranes has on April 20, 2018, received a notification under Chapter 9, Section 5 of the Securities Market Act, according to which the total holding of BlackRock, Inc. in Konecranes Plc’s shares and votes has risen above 10 percent.

On April 19, 2018, BlackRock, Inc.’s total holding through shares and votes amounted to 10.48 percent of Konecranes Plc’s shares and votes.

Total positions of BlackRock, Inc.:

	% of shares and voting rights (A)	% of shares and voting rights through financial instruments (B)	Total of both in % (A+B)	Total number of shares and voting rights of issuer
Resulting situation of the date on which the threshold was crossed of reached	10.48%	0.02%	10.51%	78,921,906
Position of previous notification	8.24%	2.32%	10.56%

Notified details of the resulting situation on the date on which the threshold was crossed or reached:

A: shares and voting rights

Class/type of shares ISIN code	Number of shares and voting rights	Number of shares and voting rights	% of shares and voting rights	% of shares and voting rights
	Direct (SMA 9:5)	Indirect (SMA 9:6 and 9:7)	Direct (SMA 9:5)	Indirect (SMA 9:6 and 9:7)
FI0009005870		8.275.603		10.48%
SUBTOTAL A		8.275.603		10.48%

B: Financial instruments according to SMA 9:6a

Type of financial instrument	Expiration date	Exercise/Conversion Period	Physical or cash settlement	Number of shares and voting rights	% of shares and voting rights
Securities Lent	N/A	N/A	Physical	20,764	0.02%
SUBTOTAL B				20,764	0.02%

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FURTHER INFORMATION
Mr. Eero Tuulos, Vice President, Investor Relations, tel. +358 (0) 20 427 2050

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 of all makes. In 2017, Group sales totaled EUR 3,136 million. The Group has 16,400 employees at 600 locations in 50 countries. Konecranes shares are listed on the Nasdaq Helsinki (symbol: KCR).



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