Vacon - Company Announcement

Vacon publishes its January-June Interim Report on August 3, 2011

Vacon Plc, Stock Exchange Release, 26 July 2011 at 11.45 am

Vacon will publish its Interim Report January - June 2011 on Wednesday, 3 August
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), or 10:30 CET. The briefing will be held in Finnish. Please inform
Maija Suutarinen of your participation at maija.suutarinen(at)vacon.com no later
than 29 July 2011.

A dial-in conference in English for investors and investment analysts will be
held at 3.00 pm (EET) on 3 August 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 7136 2050 (UK Toll) and +358 (0)9 2319 4344
(Finland Toll), and request to be connected to the Vacon call (Confirmation code
1153384). 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 1153384#.

Webcast URL: http://www.media-server.com/m/p/bnik5j84

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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