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KONECRANES PLC - NOTICE PURSUANT TO THE FINNISH SECURITIES MARKET ACT, CHAPTER 9, SECTION 10

KONECRANES PLC  STOCK EXCHANGE RELEASE  September 9, 2016  at 18:30

Konecranes  has on September 9, 2016, received a notification under Chapter 9,
Section 5 of the Securities Market Act, according to which the total holding of
BlackRock, Inc. in Konecranes Plc’s shares and votes has exceeded 5 percent. On
September 8, 2016, Blackrock Inc.’s total holding through shares and financials
instruments amounted to 5.05 percent of Konecranes Plc’s shares and votes. 

Total positions of BlackRock, Inc.:


                        % 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       2.70%               2.34%    5.05%       63,272,342
 the date on which the                                                          
 threshold was crossed                                                          
 of reached                                                                     
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Position of previous    Below 5%    Below 5%            Below                   
 notification                                            5%                     
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Notified details of the resulting situation on the date on which the threshold
was crossed or reached: 

A: 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                           1,710,778                             2.70%
70                                                                              
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SUBTOTAL A                           1,710,778                             2.70%
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B: Financial instruments according to SMA 9:6a



Type of        Expirat  Exercise/Con  Physical or   Number of       % of shares 
 financial     ion      version        cash          shares and      and voting 
 instrument     date     Period        settlement    voting rights   rights     
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Securities     N/A      N/A           Physical           1,313,954         2.07%
 Lent                                                                           
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CFD            N/A      N/A           Cash                 171,256         0.27%
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SUBTOTAL B                                               1,485,210         2.34%
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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 2015, Group sales totaled EUR 2,126 million. The Group has 11,400
employees at 600 locations in 48 countries. Konecranes is listed on Nasdaq
Helsinki (symbol: KCR1V).