KONECRANES PUBLISHES ITS JANUARY-SEPTEMBER INTERIM REPORT ON OCTOBER 29, 2009


KONECRANES PLC STOCK EXCHANGE RELEASE  October 21, 2009 at 9.45 a.m.            

KONECRANES PUBLISHES ITS JANUARY-SEPTEMBER INTERIM REPORT ON OCTOBER 29, 2009   

Konecranes will publish its January-September 2009 Interim Report on Thursday,  
October 29, 2009 at 10.00 a.m. Finnish time. The report will be available on the
company's website at www.konecranes.com after publishing.                       

An analyst and press conference will be held at the Hotel Haven (address        
Unioninkatu 17) at 12.00 p.m. Finnish time. The Interim Report will be presented
by Konecranes' President and CEO Pekka Lundmark and CFO Teo Ottola.             

A live webcast of the conference with the possibility to ask questions through  
web will begin at 12.00 p.m. at 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 2008, Group sales totaled EUR 2,103 million. The Group has 9,700      
employees, in 485 locations in 43 countries. Konecranes is listed on NASDAQ OMX 
Helsinki Ltd (symbol: KCR1V).                                                   

KONECRANES PLC                                                                  


Sanna Päiväniemi                                                                
IR Manager                                                                      




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Konecranes Plc                                                                  
Sanna Päiväniemi, IR Manager, tel. +358 (0)20 427 2050                          




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