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

KONECRANES PLC  STOCK EXCHANGE RELEASE  October 26, 2012 at 10.25

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

Konecranes (ID 0942718-2) has on October 26, 2012, received a disclosure under
Chapter 2, Section 9 of the Securities Market Act, according to which the
holding of BlackRock, Inc. (USA Tax ID 32-0174421) in Konecranes Plc has
exceeded 5 percent. BlackRock, Inc. held 3,250,867 Konecranes Plc's shares on
October 22, 2012, which is 5.14 percent of Konecranes Plc's shares and votes. 

Konecranes Plc has a total of 63,272,342 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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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 2011, Group sales totaled EUR 1,896 million. The Group has 12,100
employees at 609 locations in 47 countries. Konecranes is listed on the NASDAQ
OMX Helsinki (symbol: KCR1V).