Invitation to a briefing and teleconference

Vacon Plc, Stock Exchange Announcement, 18 April 2008 at 2:30 p.m.

Vacon will publish its Interim Report for the period of 1 January -
31 March 2008 on Thursday, 24 April, 2008 at 9.00 a.m. Finnish time.

A briefing for the financial analysts and media will be held on the
same day in Helsinki, Sokos Hotel Vaakuna, meeting room Vaakuna,
Kaivokatu 3, at 11:30 a.m. Finnish time (9:30 UK time). Please inform
IR Johanna Koskinen of your participation no later than 22 April by
e-mail at johanna.koskinen(at)vacon.com.

A telephone conference for financial analysts and investors,
conducted in English, will begin at 3:00 p.m. Finnish time (1 p.m. UK
time). Conference call participants are requested to call in a few
minutes prior to the start of teleconference in +44 (0) 207 162 0025
(code Vacon). A replay is available for three (3) working days after
the conference in +44 (0) 207 031 4064 (access code: 782084).

Link to the meeting:
http://wcc.webeventservices.com/view/wl/r.htm?e=103014&s=1&k=1160FA7DA444BC6482628EE794A1E4FC&cb=genesys

The presentation material will be available before the start of the
briefing at the Vacon's website www.vacon.com > Investors >
Publications and releases.

Vacon in brief
Vacon was established in 1993 from a passion to develop and produce
AC drives globally. It is a matter of honour for Vacon to offer
customers efficient, reliable and easy to use means for improving
process control and saving energy and costs. Vacon's solutions
represent clean technology. They can be used to control the speed of
electric motors used by industry and municipal engineering, and in
power generation using renewable energy. Vacon provides AC drives in
the power range 0.25 kW - 5 MW. Revenues in 2007 totalled EUR 232.2
million.

VACON PLC


For further information:
Johanna Koskinen, IR, Phone +358 (0)40 8371 528, e-mail:
johanna.koskinen(at)vacon.com


DISTRIBUTION:
Helsinki Stock Exchanges
Financial Supervision Authority
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