our story
OnBio is a leading UK specialist in portable BATTERIES, low carbon heater hire and renewable fuels for heating and power generation
OnBio’s Founder, Tom Crooke, worked in the UK film industry as a Location Manager for 20 years before moving to work full time as Company Director at OnBio in 2018. Driven by the hire industry’s lack of sustainable alternatives, Tom set up OnBio in 2014 to encourage the take up of emerging renewable technologies and show there were sustainable ways to run plant machinery.
OnBio was the first UK plant hire company to run workshop and marquee heaters on 100% sustainable fuels and has now grown to become one of the UK film & TV industry’s most trusted suppliers.
From our carefully selected heating and cooling equipment to our unwavering determination to only use 100% ISCC certified renewable fuels in generators and heaters, OnBio is able to radically reduce our clients’ carbon emissions and play a significant role in the sector’s transition to net zero.
Recently, to help film & TV productions move away from their reliance on small petrol engines. OnBio has developed a powerful battery unit called the ‘Orb’, using second-life electric car batteries, which is able to supply silent emission-free power on set.
Our Clients
1% For the planet pledge
We are proud to support Surfers Against Sewage by donating 1% of our net hire sales to this amazing charity.
For the past 30 years Surfers Against Sewage have tirelessly campaigned for cleaner UK waterways and oceans. Through their sometimes humorous and always engaging campaigns they have managed to keep plastic and water pollution in the news. Despite this, only 36% of UK surface waters (rivers, lakes and coastal waters) are currently classified as being of high or good status, whilst only 14% of English rivers are of good ecological status and to date not a single river has attained good chemical status*.
OnBio hopes that by supporting Surfers Against Sewage and being active in helping to keep our local waterways rubbish free we are able to play a small part in improving our essential and much loved waterways and oceans.
To this end, the OnBio team are also doing regular litter picks with the SAS’s Million Mile Beach Clean. See when the next event is on HERE.
*most recent figures published by the Environment Agency
