Konecranes Oyj - Changes in company's own shares

CONVEYANCE OF KONECRANES PLC'S OWN SHARES ON AUGUST 26, 2010

KONECRANES PLC  STOCK EXCHANGE RELEASE                      


CONVEYANCE OF KONECRANES PLC'S OWN SHARES ON AUGUST 26, 2010                    

Date: August 26, 2010                                                           
Other conveyance: Directed share issue against payment for the payment of Board 
remuneration in accordance with the resolution of the Annual General Meeting    
held 25.3.2010                                                                  
Share class: KCR1V                                                              
Amount: 5,840 shares                                                            
Price/share: EUR 23.28                                                          
Total price: EUR 135,955.20                                                     

After the conveyance on August 26, 2010 the Company will continue to hold a     
total of 2,524,760 own shares.                                                  

KONECRANES PLC                                                                  


Miikka Kinnunen                                                                 
Director, Investor Relations                                                    

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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).