Officials are trying to deliver essential raw materials to the British Steel Scathorpe factory, said the government, while rushing to keep its high burnt stoves.
An emergency law rushed by the Parliament on Saturday gave control of the Government of the Lincolnshire site to prevent its Chinese owner from closing it.
The government said that the work was underway on Monday to obtain coal and iron ore that feeds the two ovens of the power station – materials which, according to the owners, Jingye sold.
“My team is already working hard in the field for jobs to take place and ovens were burning,” said business secretary in a statement.
Dozens of companies, including steel producers Tata and Rainham Steel, have offered help and to provide their raw materials, added the government.
The speed with which the materials go to the site are important because the high stoves can undergo permanent damage if their temperature drops too low.
Restarting a closed furnace is also an expensive and complex process.
Business secretary Jonathan Reynolds said: “When I said Steelmaking has a future in the United Kingdom, I thought.
“This is why we have exceeded these new powers to save British Steel in Scunthorpe and that is why my team is already working hard in the field so that the jobs continue and the ovens were burning.”
This comes after Reynolds refused to confirm on Sunday if the government could obtain the equipment in time.
“I will not enter it,” he said on the BBC program with Laura Kuensberg, but said that the takeover had given “the opportunity” to obtain the necessary equipment.
The SCUTHORPE factory employs 2,700 people and is the last site in the United Kingdom that can produce Virgin Steel.
The government accelerated the legislation which gave it control of the factory after discussions with Jingye to save it seemed to decompose.
The company declared in March that it lost £ 700,000 per day on the site, that it called “more financially sustainable” and began a consultation on its closure.
Reynolds told the BBC that he “had become clear” during the negotiations that Jingye intended to close the Hauts Fourneaux, regardless of the financial support offered.
The government said Jingye had refused an offer of some 500 million pounds sterling and had demanded more than twice as much money, with few guarantees that it would keep the factory open.
“It may not be sabotage, it could be negligence,” said Reynolds about the actions of the company.
The conservatives criticized the government for not intervening earlier to save the factory.
Tory Shadow’s business secretary Andrew Griffith said the party supported the emergency law because “this is the least worse option of the table”.
