Two young entrepreneurs from New Zealand have invented a portable desk with the help of a digital table cutter from Switzerland-based manufacturer Zünd.

Fraser Callaway and Oliver Ward, two graphic design students atWellington University in New Zealand, were inspired to invent portable, standing desks made of currogated cardboard after they had both landed internships at different ad agencies. Unfortunately for them, neither agency had a physical work space for them to use.

So they started brainstorming, and out of the brainstorming came “Project Refold” which led to the Refold table—a portable, collapsible and sturdy work station.

“The Refold table was literally meant to help us and our fellow students bring in and set up our own work stations and take them back down again at the end of the day,” says Callaway.

The pair say they tried out numerous designs before finally settling on the finished product. The one thing they knew all along is that cardboard was going to be their material of choice.

For manufacturing their product, the design team partnered with the Baseline Group in Wellington, New Zealand. The company had a Zünd G3 L-2500 cutting table installed in early 2014.

“The speed with which the cutting system converts flat sheets of corrugated cardboard to Refold tables is truly impressive, not to mention the incredible precision of the cuts, which is absolutely critical for this type of product,” says Callaway. “Without perfect cuts, there is no way we could guarantee the speed and ease of assembly, nor the ability of the table, once put together, to support up to 85 kilograms/185 lbs.”

As a result, the two young entrepreneurs were able to acquire 40,000 euros in seed money to launch a start-up company, and they say the Refold table is only the first of many products they will be producing.