Charter Medical is a privately held single-use solutions manufacturer. The company operates as part of the Solesis group — as evidenced by co-branding on its website — reflecting its position within a broader single-use and life sciences supply platform.

Charter Medical’s founding mission centres on advancing single-use processing for biopharmaceutical manufacturing and therapy development, with a stated goal of enabling sponsors to lower costs, reduce contamination risk, and make complex therapies more accessible. The company designs, manufactures, and customises single-use fluid management, containment, cryopreservation, filtration, and blood management products for use across bioprocessing workflows from clinical development through to commercial manufacturing. Its quality system and product portfolio are engineered to meet the stringent requirements of GMP clinical and commercial manufacturing environments.

The company serves biopharmaceutical manufacturers, CDMOs, cell and gene therapy developers, academic research institutions, and blood management organisations across North America and internationally.

Key Products and Services

Bioprocessing

• Biocontainers and fluid transfer bags — flexible single-use bio-containers in a range of volumes and configurations for upstream and downstream bioprocessing fluid management
• Bioprocessing fluid transfer sets — single-use tubing assemblies with fittings, connectors, and clamps for sterile fluid transfer between process vessels
• Advect® Fluid Transfer Sets — a proprietary series of fluid transfer sets designed for reliable, contamination-controlled fluid movement within bioprocessing workflows
• Manifolds — custom-designed single-use manifold assemblies for streamlined multi-path fluid management, reducing manual connections and contamination risk

Blood Management

• Blood transfer bags — single-use bags for blood collection, separation, and storage in transfusion medicine and blood banking applications
• Aliquot bag systems — single-use systems for dividing blood and blood components into defined aliquots
• Plasma and fluid transfer sets — closed-system transfer sets for plasma and other blood-derived fluid management
• Neonatal syringe sets with 150μm filtration — specialised single-use syringe systems for neonatal blood management with integrated filtration

Cell and Gene Therapy

• Cell growth containers and systems — single-use containment solutions for cell expansion workflows in cell therapy manufacturing
• Biological fluid management solutions — single-use bags, sets, and assemblies for managing biological fluids in cell and gene therapy processes
• Cryopreservation containment for cell-based therapies — single-use cryogenic containers supporting freeze-thaw processes for cell therapy products

Cryopreservation

• Freeze-Pak™ with FP-FLEX™ — a proprietary cryogenic storage system designed to withstand freeze-thaw cycles for protection of cell-based materials and biological samples
• Cell Freeze® Cryogenic Storage Containers — single-use cryogenic containers for storage and transport of cell-based materials under controlled temperature conditions

Filtration

• AccuStrain™ 40μm and 150μm filters — single-use inline filtration solutions for closed-system processing, ensuring workflow integrity and removal of cell aggregates or debris in bioprocessing and blood management applications
• Integrated filtration within fluid transfer sets and neonatal syringe systems

DEHP-Free Solutions

• A dedicated DEHP-free product line spanning fluid transfer bags, transfer sets, and blood management products for clients prioritising patient safety and regulatory compliance with restrictions on di(2-ethylhexyl) phthalate (DEHP) plasticisers in medical and pharmaceutical products

Customisation Services

• Bespoke single-use solution design and manufacturing for clients whose bioprocessing or therapy development workflows are not adequately served by off-the-shelf products
• Engineering collaboration to integrate customised single-use components seamlessly into existing client workflow architectures
• Customisation spans bag configuration, port type and placement, tubing diameter and length, connector type, and manifold architecture

Freezing Studies

• Data-driven cryogenic feasibility and characterisation studies assessing how critical biologic products and single-use materials interact under freeze-thaw conditions
• Cryogenic protocol optimisation for cell-based materials and biological products based on empirical freezing study data

Manifold Design Services

• Custom manifold design services for clients seeking to transition from manual to automated fill operations, optimise cleanroom space, reduce human error, and minimise contamination risk through closed-system multi-path fluid management

Charter Medical occupies a focused position in the single-use bioprocessing consumables market as a customisation-centric manufacturer differentiating itself from catalogue-only suppliers through the depth of its bespoke engineering capability and the breadth of its application coverage — spanning bioprocessing, cryopreservation, cell and gene therapy, filtration, and blood management within a single product portfolio. Its membership of the Solesis group positions it within a broader single-use supply platform, providing strategic backing and potentially complementary capabilities across the group. The company’s dual commercial infrastructure — a manufacturing headquarters and a separate Innovation Hub, both in Winston-Salem — signals investment in both volume production and new product development. Its DEHP-free product line reflects attentiveness to evolving regulatory and patient safety expectations regarding phthalate plasticisers in contact materials, a consideration of growing relevance to pharmaceutical and blood management clients in the EU and increasingly in the US.