KONECRANES PUBLISHES ITS APRIL-JUNE INTERIM REPORT ON JULY 22, 2010


KONECRANES PLC STOCK EXCHANGE RELEASE  July 5, 2010 at 11.30 a.m.               

KONECRANES PUBLISHES ITS APRIL-JUNE INTERIM REPORT ON JULY 22, 2010             

Konecranes will publish its April-June 2010 Interim Report on Thursday, July    
22, 2010 at 9.30 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 G.W. Sundmans' Auditorium
(address Eteläranta 16) 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. An on-demand version of the
webcast will be available on the company's website later the same day.  
                        

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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 2009, Group sales totalled EUR 1,671 million. The Group has 9,800
employees, at more than 545 locations in 43 countries. Konecranes is listed on
the NASDAQ OMX Helsinki (symbol: KCR1V).