Vacon - Company Announcement

Vacon publishes its January-September Interim Report on October 25, 2011

Vacon Plc, Stock Exchange Release, 17 October, 2011 at 2.00 p.m.

Vacon will publish its Interim Report January - September 2011 on Tuesday, 25
October 2011 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, address Simonkatu 9, 00100 Helsinki, at 11:30 a.m. Finnish
time (EET). The briefing will be held in Finnish. Please inform Maija Suutarinen
of your participation at maija.suutarinen(at)vacon.com no later than 21 October
2011.

A dial-in conference in English for investors and investment analysts will be
held at 3.00 pm (EET) on 25 October 2011. President and CEO Vesa Laisi and
Eriikka Söderström, CFO and Vice President, Finance and Control, will
participate in the conference. Please call +44 (0)20 3364 5381 (UK Toll) and
+358(0)9 2310 1620 (Finland Toll), and request to be connected to the Vacon call
(Confirmation code 8441413). A recording of the conference will be available for
seven days at +44 (0)20 7111 1244 (UK Toll) and +358 (0)9 2310 1650 (Finland
Toll). The access code is 8441413#.

Webcast URL: http://www.media-server.com/m/p/rux9zesj

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

Vacon Plc

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 design, manufacture and sell only the best AC
drives on the planet - and nothing else. AC drives can be used to control
electric motors or to help generate power from renewable sources. Vacon has R&D
and production units in Finland, the United States, China and Italy, and sales
offices in 27 countries. In 2010, Vacon had revenues of EUR 338 million and
globally employed 1,300 people. Vacon's shares (VAC1V) are listed and publicly
traded on the Helsinki Stock Exchange.

Driven by Drives, www.vacon.com

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