Driven by his belief that little steps can change the world, Zafer Kaplan founded Gama Recycle to protect the world's natural resources. When he came up with the idea of recycling the leftovers from clothing production, he was one of the first to process recycled fibres for fashion. Processing the short, mechannically recycled fibres, is a great challenge, because the fibre length and quality is not consistent. 

Gama, a trendsetter in sustainability, now has 6 production facilities in Turkey. Every day, more than 1,500 employees recycle around 300 tonnes of PET bottles and 200 tonnes of used clothing and fabric scraps into yarn and textile products and PET chips. As consumer demand for 'green fashion' increases worldwide, Gama Recycle continues to grow and exports around 40% of its production to more than 30 countries. 

Zafer Kaplan's vision was to grow and "protect nature by moving forward with an environmentally friendly approach, increasing the amount of textile and plastic bottle waste processed in production and returning it to the economy". Recycling saves energy, water, dyes, mineral oil and virgin fibres and is lucrative on the other hand, because of the low raw material costs.

Gama was looking for machines and technologies that could handle high short fibre content, high fibre fly and low energy consumption. Recycled fibre is not as strong as virgin fibre and has been stressed during its first life and during the opening of the fabric. Therefore, in its second life, the fibre needs to be processed carefully to provide sufficient yarn quality. The secret of Gama's success is to spin from extremely variable raw material a consistent yarn quality.

The Saurer Autocoro rotor spinning machine is ideal for processing short recycled fibres and Gama Recycle now has around 3,000 Autocoro spinning positions in use. At Gama Recycle, about 80% of the regenerated fibres are processed as rotor yarns. Saurer supports its customers in defining the correct machine settings and elements such as rotors, opening rollers and nozzles. This support made Gama's entry into OE yarn production easy.  

Over the years, Gama Recycle has developed specific know-how and technologies for the processing of recycled and regenerated fibres and has protected its know-how with 23 patents. In 2002, Gama invested in the latest generation of Saurer rotor spinning machines - the Autocoro 10 - to benefit from 20% energy savings compared to the previous model.