Konecranes Oyj - Major shareholder announcements

KONECRANES PLC STOCK EXCHANGE RELEASE December 21, 2010

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

Konecranes Plc (ID 0942718-2) has on December 20, 2010, received a disclosure
under Chapter 2, Section 9 of the Securities Market Act, according to which the
holding of BlackRock, Inc. (USA Tax ID 32-0174421) in Konecranes has exceeded
10 percent. BlackRock held 6,239,140 Konecranes' shares on December 17, 2010,
which is 10.06 percent of Konecranes' shares and votes. 

Konecranes has a total of 62,002,120 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

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 totaled EUR 1,671 million. The Group has 9,800
employees, at 545 locations in 43 countries. Konecranes is listed on NASDAQ OMX
Helsinki Ltd (symbol: KCR1V). 

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