KONECRANES PUBLISHES ITS JANUARY-SEPTEMBER 2008 INTERIM REPORT ON OCTOBER 29, 2008


KONECRANES PLC  STOCK EXCHANGE RELEASE  October 21, 2008 at 9.30 a.m.           

KONECRANES PUBLISHES ITS JANUARY-SEPTEMBER 2008 INTERIM REPORT ON OCTOBER 29,   
2008                                                                            

Konecranes will publish its January-September 2008 Interim Report on Wednesday, 
October 29, 2008 at 10.00 a.m. Finnish time. The report will be available on the
company's website at www.konecranes.com immediately after publishing.           

An analyst and press conference will be held at the Konecranes offices (address 
Eteläesplanadi 22 B, inner court, 2nd floor) at 12.00 noon. Finnish time. The   
interim report will be presented by Konecranes's President and CEO Pekka        
Lundmark and CFO Teo Lundmark                                                   

A live webcast of the conference with the possibility to ask questions will     
begin at 12.00 noon at 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 9,350      
employees, at more than 470 locations in 43 countries. Konecranes is listed on  
the OMX Nordic Exchange Helsinki (symbol: KCR1V).                               

KONECRANES PLC                                                                  



Sanna Päiväniemi                                                                
IR Manager                                                                      




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Konecranes Plc                                                                  
Sanna Päiväniemi, IR Manager, tel. +358 (0)20 427 2050                          




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