CRAMO AND HARTELA TO COOPERATE IN BUILDING SITE HUT SERVICES Cramo, one of the leading companies in equipment rental and related services, has agreed with Rakennusosakeyhtiö Hartela about outsourcing building site huts. In the initial phase Cramo acquires Hartela's entire fleet of site huts. Furthermore, Cramo takes over the order for additional site huts that Hartela already placed at Cramo Master (a site hut factory within the Cramo Group). All in all the agreement concerns approximately 200 site huts. The parties also signed a five year cooperation agreement in which Cramo undertakes to provide Hartela all site huts, the installation and service in the Helsinki metropolitan area and Lahti region. "The agreement is of strategic importance as it is one of the first outsourcing agreement in our industry in Finland" says Tatu Hauhio, Managing Director of Cramo Finland Oy. "Even though it has been a while since we took the first step towards this agreement, concluding the terms of the cooperation has been very uncomplicated". "Outsourcing the whole site hut service to Cramo is beneficial for us. This helps us to estimate costs, but also to plan the whole construction project, because we do not need to consider this part anymore in planning", says Jouko Granqvist, Head of Machinery at Hartela. "The delivery time for site huts may sometimes be too long. With this cooperation, Cramo will provide us the necessary equipment within a few weeks of a phone call and we no longer need to wait for site huts to be manufactured." "Along the cooperation, we know that there is always a certain amount of maintained and functional site huts, which will cover our needs", Markku Utriainen, Senior Vice President, adds. Outsourcing site huts to Cramo releases Hartela's own resources for other use in projects. CRAMO PLC Vesa Koivula President and CEO Further information Tatu Hauhio, Managing Director, Cramo Finland Oy, tel. +358 40 570 1344 Cramo Finland Oy is a part of the Cramo Group. Cramo Plc is a service company specialising in construction machinery and equipment rental and rental-related services, as well as rental and sale of modular space. As one of the industry's leading service providers in the Nordic countries and Central and Eastern Europe, Cramo operates in ten countries with 250 outlets. Cramo is listed on the OMX Nordic Exchange Helsinki Oy. The Hartela Group is one of the biggest construction companies in Finland. The financially sound 65-year-old family business employs more than 1200 professionals in construction, building services and export activities nationwide. Hartela's turnover in 2006 was approximately 271 million euro. The company's main areas of operation are developer housing construction, contracting, construction of business premises, building services and real-estate management. Hartela has companies and regional offices across Finland - in the Helsinki metropolitan area, Lahti, Lappeenranta, Oulu, Rauma, Tammisaari, Tampere and Turku. Distribution OMX Nordic Exchange Helsinki Oy Major media www.cramo.com