OUR HISTORY.
Over 110 years of managing the land.
The origins of our company date back to 1900, when F D Todd started the business in Thirsk as a haulage contractor and road builder.
Following the sale of our family-run business, Todd Waste Management, in 2017, we founded Allium Energy with a clear mission in mind – to propel the energy and organic recycling sector forward.
Allium Energy is owned and managed by the fourth generation of the Todd family. While the activities of the business have evolved over the generations, the focus has always been on land, environment and energy. We believe that where there’s muck, there’s brass.
1900 - 1940
Quarrying, road building and general transport.
1940 - 1970
General transport and movement of aggregates.
1970 - 1980
Diversified into plant hire, ready-mix concrete, builders merchants and skip hire. All in the Thirsk area.
1996 - 2017
Expanded skip hire, built first waste treatment centre in Thirsk and developed into a waste management business, operating from six sites across north Yorkshire and the north east.
2010
One of the first companies in England to be granted a Transfrontier Shipment (TFS)
authorisation to export refuse-derived fuel (RFD)
2014
Started to develop the organic recycling business, composting green waste on an old
airfield site and gaining consent to restore a former landfill.
2017
Bought the Alne site for our new Allium head office and operational site. Started to generate power from landfill gas & STOR.
2018
Opened the in-vessel composting activity at Alne to process mixed organic wastes,
becoming one of only two plants permitted in the UK.
2020
Bought Agricultural Anaerobic Digester plant in Consett.
2021
Finished restoring the Knapton landfill site and expanded the biomass business to
include woodland clearances.
2022
Started construction of the CHP plant at Alne.
2023
Gained consent to restore the Alne landfill site and awarded Biodiversity credits
for the scheme.