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Konecranes Plc: Notice pursuant to the Finnish Securities Market Act, chapter 9, section 10

KONECRANES PLC  STOCK EXCHANGE RELEASE  January 9, 2017  at 15:15 EET

Konecranes  has on January 9, 2017, received a notification under Chapter 9,
Section 5 of the Securities Market Act according to which the holding of
Sanderson Asset Management LLP in Konecranes Plc’s shares and votes has
decreased below 5 percent due to dilution related to Konecranes Plc’s share
issue. 

Total positions of Sanderson Asset Management LLP on January 6, 2017:

                        % of        % of shares and     Total    Total number of
                         shares      voting rights       of       shares and    
                         and         through financial   both     voting rights 
                         voting      instruments (B)     in %     of issuer     
                         rights                          (A+B)                  
                         (A)                                                    
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Resulting situation of        3.86                   -     3.86       82,872,342
 the date on which the                                                          
 threshold was crossed                                                          
 or reached                                                                     
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Position of previous          5.06                   -     5.06                -
 notification                                                                   
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Notified details of the resulting situation on the date on which the threshold
was crossed or reached: 

Shares and voting rights




Class/type  Number of shares  Number of shares  % of shares and  % of shares and
 of shares   and voting        and voting        voting rights    voting rights 
ISIN code    rights            rights                                           
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            Direct (SMA 9:5)  Indirect (SMA     Direct (SMA      Indirect (SMA  
                               9:6 and 9:7)      9:5)             9:6 and 9:7)  
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FI00090058                 -         3,201,628                -             3.86
70                                                                              
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TOTAL                      -         3,201,628                -             3.86
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KONECRANES PLC

Miikka Kinnunen
Vice President, Investor Relations



FURTHER INFORMATION
Mr. Miikka Kinnunen, 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. The Group has
18,000 employees at 600 locations in 50 countries. Konecranes class A share is
listed on Nasdaq Helsinki (symbol: KCR). 



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