Vacon Plc, Stock Exchange Release, 24 September 2014 at 10.00 a.m. (EET)

Vacon`s CFO and a member of Vacon Group`s Executive Management Team Pia Aaltonen-Forsell has returned to work after being on maternity leave. Ann-Louise Brännback, who acted as CFO during Pia Aaltonen-Forsell`s maternity leave, returns to her previous job as Director, Business Control Product Operations.

"We are pleased to welcome Pia back. At the same time, I want to thank Ann-Louise Brännback, who has done excellent job in acting as CFO during Pia`s maternity leave," says Vesa Laisi, Vacon`s President and CEO.

VACON PLC

Further information:

• Sebastian Linko, Director, Corporate Communications and Investor Relations, +358 (0)40 8371 634, sebastian.linko(at)vacon.com

Vacon in brief

Vacon is driven by a passion to develop, manufacture and sell the best AC drives and inverters in the world - and provide customers with efficient product lifecycle services. Our AC drives offer optimum process control and energy efficiency for electric motors. Vacon inverters play a key role when energy is produced from renewable sources. Vacon has production and R&D facilities in Europe, Asia and North America, and sales offices in 30 countries. Further, Vacon has sales representatives and service partners in nearly 90 countries. In 2013, Vacon`s revenues amounted to EUR 403.0 million, and the company employed globally approximately 1,600 people. The shares of Vacon Plc (VAC1V) are quoted on the main list of the Helsinki stock exchange (NASDAQ OMX Helsinki).

Driven by Drives, www.vacon.com

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