KONECRANES PUBLISHES ITS JANUARY-MARCH INTERIM REPORT ON APRIL 28, 2010


KONECRANES PUBLISHES ITS JANUARY-MARCH INTERIM REPORT ON APRIL 28, 2010         

Konecranes will publish its January-March 2010 Interim Report on Wednesday,     
April 28, 2010 at 9.30 a.m. Finnish time. The report will be available on the   
company's website at www.konecranes.com after publishing.                       

An analyst and press conference will be held at G.W. Sundmans' Auditorium       
(address Eteläranta 16) at 12.00 p.m. Finnish time. The Interim Report will be  
presented by Konecranes' President and CEO Pekka Lundmark and CFO Teo Ottola.   

A live webcast of the conference with the possibility to ask questions through  
web will begin at 12.00 p.m. at www.konecranes.com. An on-demand version of the 
webcast will be available on the company's website later the same day.          

KONECRANES PLC                                                                  


Miikka Kinnunen                                                                 
Director, Investor Relations                                                    




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Konecranes Plc                                                                  
Miikka Kinnunen, Director, Investor Relations, tel. +358 (0)20 427 2050         




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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, at more than 545 locations in 43 countries. Konecranes is listed on  
the NASDAQ OMX Helsinki (symbol: KCR1V).