TAMRON establishes a partnership structure with "mapry" and takes equity stake | NEWS ROOM

May 1, 2025 – Tamron Co., Ltd. (President & CEO: Shogo Sakuraba; Headquarters: Saitama City, Japan; “TAMRON”), a leading manufacturer of optics for diverse applications, has established a strategic collaborative structure with mapry Co., LTD. (“mapry”), the provider of the mapry map geospatial information application platform that enables anyone to easily utilize vast amounts of survey data about forests and other terrain. TAMRON also announces that it has taken an equity stake in mapry.

To promote the digital transformation (DX) of forests and civil engineering sites, mapry provides remote sensing services and operates supply chain platforms based on measurement and analysis data. Although it was previously difficult to obtain and utilize 3D data due to the cost of instruments and the difficulty of operating instruments and analyzing data, mapry offers solutions that address these issues.

Forests occupy two thirds* of the public land of Japan, one of the most forested countries in the world. Because of issues such as forest accumulation increasing every year and the decreasing number of forestry workers, who are also increasing in age, Japan is facing the issue of a failure to appropriately manage forests. This situation has resulted in forests that can no longer perform their original functions, such as the prevention of landslides, soil preservation (i.e., land conservation), the protection of the environment from global warming, and the preservation of biodiversity. This has resulted in social problems such as the personal suffering caused by natural disasters and the temperature rise due to climate change.

TAMRON is hoping that the combination of its optical technologies with infinite possibilities and mapry's digital technologies and solutions will result in synergy, so TAMRON decided to make this investment in mapry. Through this initiative, TAMRON will strive to contribute in various industrial fields in addition to forestry and the resolution of social issues.

To satisfy the needs of the market and its customers which change every day, TAMRON will continue to create synergy with other industries and implement initiatives to create new value leveraging optical technologies that can be used in many different industrial fields.

*Forestry Agency, Status Quo and Issues for Forests, Forestry, and Lumber Industry (tentatively translated, data as of March 2025) https://www.rinya.maff.go.jp/j/kikaku/genjo_kadai/

<About mapry Co., LTD.>

Company Name	mapry Co., LTD.
Founded	January, 2019
Location	〒669‐4125 Tada, Kasuga Town, Tanba-shi, Hyogo Prefecture
Representative	Representative Director Keiji Yamaguchi
Business Details	Development of GIS applications, Development of LiDAR and other hardware
URL	https://mapry.co.jp/en/