Konecranes Oyj - Major shareholder announcements

DISCLOSURE UNDER CHAPTER 2, SECTION 10 OF THE SECURITIES MARKET ACT

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

Konecranes Plc (ID 0942718-2) has on June 23, 2010, received a disclosure under 
Chapter 2, Section 9 of the Securities Market Act, according to which the       
combined holding of HTT 2 Holding Oy Ab (ID 2301146-6), K. Hartwall Invest Oy Ab
(ID 2104476-6), Fyrklöver-Invest Oy Ab (ID 2104480-3) and Rönnäs Invest AG (CH  
020.3.028.263.2) in Konecranes has exceeded 10 percent. All the shareholders    
mentioned in the disclosure will in practice co-operate in matters concerning   
their ownership in Konecranes Plc. HTT 2 Holding Oy Ab is a subsidiary of       
Hartwall Capital Oy Ab.                                                         

The ownership of the shareholders mentioned in the disclosure is distributed as 
follows in Konecranes Plc:                                                      

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| Company                |Number of shares|          Percent of shares         |
|                        |                |                  and votes         |
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| HTT 2 Holding Oy Ab    |      6,065,568 |                        9.78|       |
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| K. Hartwall Invest Oy  |         41,000 |                        0.07|       |
| Ab                     |                |                            |       |
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| Fyrklöver-Invest Oy Ab |         71,400 |                        0.12|       |
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| Rönnäs Invest AG       |         30,000 |                        0.05|       |
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The combined ownership of the shareholders mentioned in the disclosure amounts  
to 6,207,968 shares, which is 10.01 percent of the shares and votes in          
Konecranes Plc.                                                                 

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         


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www.konecranes.com                                                              

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 totalled EUR 1,671 million. The Group has 9,600     
employees, at more than 545 locations in 43 countries. Konecranes is listed on  
the NASDAQ OMX Helsinki (symbol: KCR1V).