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KONECRANES PLC'S SHARE SUBSCRIPTIONS BASED ON STOCK OPTIONS

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KONECRANES PLC  STOCK EXCHANGE RELEASE  February 10, 2010 at 3.00 p.m.          

KONECRANES PLC'S SHARE SUBSCRIPTIONS BASED ON STOCK OPTIONS                     

A total of 22,400 of Konecranes Plc's new shares were subscribed for under the  
company's stock option plans as follows:                                        

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| Stock option right         |            Shares  |         Subscription price |
|                            |                    |                (EUR/share) |
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| 2001B-series               |             22,400 |                       8.50 |
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The full subscription price of EUR 190,400 will be entered in the paid-in       
capital. Following the related subscriptions, the number of Konecranes Plc      
shares will increase to 61,895,320. This number includes the shares held by the 
company.                                                                        

The shares subscribed for under the stock options were registered in the Trade  
Register on February 10, 2010 on the basis of which the new shares will         
establish shareholder rights. Konecranes will apply for their listing, together 
with its existing shares, on the Main List of the NASDAQ OMX Helsinki. Trading  
in the new shares will begin on or around February 11, 2010.                    

Stock options issued under Konecranes Plc's ongoing stock option plans entitle  
their holders to subscribe for a total of 2,751,000 shares. The terms and       
conditions of all of the company's stock option plans are available at          
www.konecranes.com/investors.                                                   

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, in 545 locations in 43 countries. Konecranes is listed on NASDAQ OMX 
Helsinki Ltd (symbol: KCR1V).                                                   

KONECRANES PLC                                                                  

Miikka Kinnunen                                                                 
Director, Investor Relations                                                    


FURTHER INFORMATION                                                             
Miikka Kinnunen, Director, Investor Relations, Konecranes Plc,                  
tel. +358 20 427 2050                                                           


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