KONECRANES STOCK EXCHANGE RELEASE April 8, 2009 at 3.45 p.m. KONECRANES HAS SIGNED A EUR 200-MILLION REVOLVING CREDIT FACILITY Konecranes has signed a new EUR 200m three-year Revolving Credit Facility with its core relationship banks. The loan will be used for general corporate purposes and is a refinancing of the EUR 200-million facility signed March 2005. The Mandated Lead Arrangers and Bookrunners are Calyon, Handelsbanken, Nordea, Pohjola, Sampo and SEB. They are joined by Commerzbank as Lead Arranger. SEB acted as the Co-ordinating Mandated Lead Arranger and Facility Agent. 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 2008, Group sales totaled EUR 2,103 million. The Group has 9,900 employees, in 485 locations in 43 countries. Konecranes is listed on NASDAQ OMX Helsinki Ltd (symbol: KCR1V). KONECRANES PLC Sanna Päiväniemi IR Manager FURTHER INFORMATION Mr Seppo Roine, Group Treasurer, tel. +358 20 427 2041 DISTRIBUTION NASDAQ OMX Helsinki Ltd Media www.konecranes.com