Konecranes Oyj - Company Announcement

POSTPONEMENTS OF A SMALL AMOUNT OF DELIVERIES FROM FOURTH QUARTER 2009 TO FIRST QUARTER 2010 COULD LEAD FULL YEAR 2009 SALES TO BE SLIGHTLY LOWER THAN PREVIOUSLY ESTIMATED. OPERATING MARGIN ESTIMATE REMA

KONECRANES PLC   STOCK EXCHANGE RELEASE   DECEMBER 11, 2009  2.00 p.m. EET      

POSTPONEMENTS OF A SMALL AMOUNT OF DELIVERIES FROM FOURTH QUARTER 2009 TO FIRST 
QUARTER 2010 COULD LEAD FULL YEAR 2009 SALES TO BE SLIGHTLY LOWER THAN          
PREVIOUSLY ESTIMATED. OPERATING MARGIN ESTIMATE REMAINS UNCHANGED               

Konecranes will have a large number of customer deliveries around the year end. 
This is a pattern well known from previous years, and it makes the estimation of
the full year sales difficult, since certain deliveries could fall on either    
side of the New Year. Often the final delivery time is also dependent on when   
the customer's site is ready to receive the equipment.                          

Due to this uncertainty, based on the currently available information there is a
possibility that the full year sales decline will be slightly more than earlier 
estimated. The uncertainty is entirely due to the timing of certain deliveries, 
and there has not been any material increase in order cancellations.            

Konecranes estimated in its third quarter interim report the 2009 full year     
sales to be 17-20 percent lower than the level of full year 2008, but also      
indicated the actual sales decrease to be close to the upper end of that range. 

The cost reduction actions are proceeding according to the plan, and Konecranes 
expects to meet its earlier operating margin forecast in spite of the           
possibility for slightly lower sales. Konecranes' full year 2009 operating      
margin estimate remains unchanged at 6.5-7.5 percent of sales, excluding the    
estimated restructuring costs of EUR 17-22 million communicated in the third    
quarter interim report.                                                         

KONECRANES PLC                                                                  

Miikka Kinnunen, Director, Investor Relations                                   


FURTHER INFORMATION                                                             
Investors and analysts:                                                         
Miikka Kinnunen, Director, Investor Relations                                   
E-mail: miikka.kinnunen@konecranes.com or phone +358 20 427 2050                

Teo Ottola, CFO                                                                 
E-mail: teo.ottola@konecranes.com or phone +358 50 5211 064                     

Media:                                                                          
Mikael Wegmüller, Director, Marketing and Communications                        
E-mail: mikael.wegmuller@konecranes.com or phone +358 20 427 2008               


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 2008, Group sales totaled EUR 2,103 million. The Group has 9,700      
employees, at 485 locations in 43 countries. Konecranes is listed on NASDAQ OMX 
Helsinki Ltd (symbol: KCR1V).                                                   




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