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For the second time in four months, Align Technology said it would cut jobs and relocate certain operations from Santa Clara to other countries. On Thursday, the maker of the Invisalign-brand teeth straighteners said it will reduce its workforce by 111 employees, or about 8 percent of its staff, with 46 of the jobs being eliminated between now and January and the rest eliminated “over the next few quarters as (Align) creates a new shared services organization in its existing” operations located in that other San Jose, the capital of Costa Rica.

The company plans to “consolidate customer care, accounts receivable, credit and collections, and customer event registration organizations” in the Costa Rican facility that it set up in 2002 that it calls “Treat Operations,” which “consist of a high performance team of 670 skilled clinical technicians and support personnel in a very scalable environment.”

The company said that the latest restructuring “builds on the cost saving actions” the company announced in July, which included the elimination of 38 jobs and the moving of its order acquisitions department from Santa Clara to its existing facilities in Juarez, Mexico, by the end of 2008. And once that’s done, the company said it would be able to eliminate 29 more jobs.

“The majority of what we are doing is structural and many valued employees are affected,” said Aligns chief executive Thomas Prescott in a statement. “These actions, while difficult, are essential to Align becoming a more efficient company and will result in a more robust operating model with room to invest for future growth.”

Unfortunately for Santa Clara, the growth won’t be happening within its borders any time soon.