Special Metals Corporation. Special Metals Corporation, headquartered in New Hartford, New York, U.S.A., with operations in Huntington, West Virginia; Dunkirk, New York; Burnaugh, Kentucky; Elkhart, Indiana and Hereford, England, is a supplier of refractory alloys. Trademarks include Inconel, Incoloy, Monel, Nimonic, and Udimet.
A project charter is a critical document that provides written authorization for a task to either start or continue to move forward. It is sometimes known as a project authorization or project initiation form. Project charters are created and signed by high-level members of an external government agency, organization or sponsor that is funding the project, not a member of the project team.
Based on my experience, I would say that: A project charter is a document which is needed to authorize the project internally, within an organization, and provide the PM with authority to run it. It may contain some organization specific names and details. (E.g. we know what and how we want to do, let's put it in writing and then officially approve)