Wärtsilä publishes January-September 2008 Interim Report on 24 October 2008 at 8.30 a.m. local time

Wärtsilä Corporation, Stock exchange release 7 October 2008 at 11:15 UTC+2

Wärtsilä Corporation will publish its Interim Report for the period January-September 2008 on Friday 24 October 2008 at 8.30 a.m. Finnish time. The interim report will be available on the company website at www.wartsila.com after publishing.

An analyst and press conference will be held on the same date, Friday 24 October 2008, at 10.45 a.m. Finnish time (8.45 a.m. UK time), at the Wärtsilä headquarters in Helsinki, Finland.

To participate in the teleconference please call: +44 (0) 20 8288 5566 and enter the Conference ID: 812353. If you want to ask questions during the teleconference, press the number 1 on your phone to register for a question and the # -key to withdraw a question. The event title for the call is: Wärtsilä Results Q3, please be ready to state your details and the name of the conference to the operator. If problems occur, please press the 0-button. We would recommend that you would register to the conference in advance at the following address: https://eventreg1.conferencing.com/webportal3/reg.html?Acc=085460&Conf=161506.

An on-demand version of the webcast will be available on the company website later the same day.

www.wartsila.com