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KONECRANES AND HEWLETT PACKARD SIGN GLOBAL IT INFRASTRUCTURE SERVICES AGREEMENT

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KONECRANES AND HEWLETT PACKARD SIGN GLOBAL IT INFRASTRUCTURE SERVICES AGREEMENT 


Konecranes and Hewlett Packard (HP) have signed a five-year agreement for IT    
infrastructure services. Under this agreement HP will operate the helpdesk and  
provide on-site support, and will harmonize the desktop computer environment    
within the whole Konecranes Group. According to the agreement, 16 global        
information services employees, including 7 in Finland, will transfer from the  
Konecranes to the HP organization during autumn 2008.                           

“By standardizing our IT infrastructure and outsourcing the support function, we
will be better equipped to face changing business challenges and to adjust the  
focus for IT from support and maintenance to development and innovations,” says 
Kari Suominen, CIO, Konecranes. “HP is able to deliver technologies suited to   
end user needs and the relevant support services all over the world, quickly and
flexibly.”                                                                      

The transition work will start in the beginning of April 2008 and will be       
finalized by May 1, 2009.                                                       

This release is available at our website 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 2007, Group sales totaled EUR 1,750 million. The Group has 8,400      
employees, at more than 470 locations in 43 countries. Konecranes is listed on  
the OMX Helsinki Stock Exchange (symbol: KCR1V).                                


KONECRANES PLC                                                                  



Paul Lönnfors                                                                   
IR Manager                                                                      




FURTHER INFORMATION                                                             
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Kari Suominen, CIO, Konecranes                                                  
E-mail: or phone +358 20 427 2110                                               

Financial Media and Analysts:                                                   
Paul Lönnfors, IR Manager                                                       
E-mail: paul.lonnfors@konecranes.com or phone +358 20 427 2050                  




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