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NEA and SAP join to form new Konecranes Region APAC

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Konecranes will as of September 1, 2010, combine the current SAP and NEA Regions
to one. The new Asia-Pacific (APAC) Region will be headed by Ryan Flynn.        

Mr. Ryan Flynn has been Senior Vice President and Head of Konecranes' operations
in the Northeast Asia (NEA) region as of September 1, 2009. At the same time,   
Mr. Flynn also became a member of the company's Extended Management Team.       
Previously, Mr. Flynn worked for Konecranes as Director, Ports, Northeast and   
Southeast Asia. In his new role as the head of the APAC Region, Mr. Flynn will  
continue to report to Harry Ollila, Executive Vice President and Head of Market 
Operations.                                                                     

After this structural change, Konecranes will be in a better position to serve  
its customers across the Asia-Pacific region.                                   

Mr. Edward Yakos, Senior Vice President, South Asia Pacific who has had a long  
and successful career at Konecranes, is pursuing other interests. Mr. Yakos     
worked for Konecranes since 1992 and since August 2005, Mr. Yakos was Head of   
Konecranes' operations in region South Asia Pacific (SAP) and Managing Director 
of both the Australian and Singaporean Konecranes subsidiaries. He was a member 
of the Group Executive Board from 2005 to September 2009, and a member of the   
Extended Management Team since September 2009.                                  

The new Konecranes Region structure consists of four Regions:                   
Americas (AME), Western Europe, Middle East and Africa (WEMEA), Nordic, Eastern 
Europe and India (NEI) and Asia-Pacific (APAC).                                 


More information:                                                               
Press                                                                           
Harry Ollila, Executive Vice President and Head of Market Operations            
e-mail: harry.ollila@konecranes.com or tel. +358 400 480 202                    

Analysts and investors:                                                         
Miikka Kinnunen, Director, Investor Relations, Konecranes Plc                   
e-mail: miikka.kinnunen@konecranes.com or phone +358 20 427 2050                

This press release is available on 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 2009, Group sales totaled EUR 1,671 million. The Group has 9,600      
employees, at 545 locations in 43 countries. Konecranes is listed on NASDAQ OMX 
Helsinki Ltd (symbol KCR1V).

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