SAN JOSE — Align Technologies, maker of the Invisalign orthodontics system, has shifted its headquarters from San Jose to Arizona but will hold an innovation hub in north San Jose.

The business moved its headquarters to Tempe, Ariz. on Jan. 1, but vowed to retain a main existence in Silicon Valley.

“The company’s San Jose campus remains the hub for its global innovation, solution, and advertising and marketing corporation and will turn into house to its new Digital Innovation Middle, at this time underneath development,” Align Engineering said in a prepared release.

Align’s disclosure comes just months after Hewlett Packard Business uncovered it would shift its company headquarters from Silicon Valley to Texas, nonetheless nonetheless keep an innovation hub at its existing San Jose campus.

“The sample emerging from HPE and Align is instructive,” San Jose Mayor Sam Liccardo said in an interview. “Both providers are including tech-proficient personnel in San Jose. But with the two companies deciding to shift their headquarters and major administrative personnel out of point out, that should be a lesson for our close friends in Sacramento.”

About 150 staff members, who operate principally in corporate, common, and administrative roles, have been offered relocation deals to shift to Arizona. Nonetheless, these workforce were being also supplied the choice to remain performing from their current spots.

Align Know-how created it clear that the corporate shifts are created to nevertheless tap the planet-class tech talent in Silicon Valley — nevertheless also get advantage of the substantially reduced enterprise expenses in Arizona.

“This transform will find the money for many new chances for Align to broaden its industry-main digital abilities by way of innovation in San Jose even though acquiring larger, very long-term working efficiencies in Arizona,” said Joe Hogan, Align’s chief executive officer.