CHANGES IN KONECRANES' INVESTOR RELATIONS FUNCTION

Changes in Konecranes' investor relations function

Konecranes' IR Manager Sanna Päiväniemi has informed that she will leave her
position at Konecranes to join another company. Ms Päiväniemi will start in her
new job December 1, 2009. 

For additional information, please contact:
Mikael Wegmüller, Director, Marketing and Communications
E-mail: [email protected] or tel. +358 20 427 2008

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 2008, Group sales totaled EUR 2,103 million. The Group has 9,700
employees, at 485 locations in 43 countries. Konecranes is listed on the NASDAQ
OMX Helsinki Ltd (symbol: KCR1V).