EMPLOYMENT AGREEMENT
dated as of November 3, 1997 by and between
Ty-Breakers Corp.
a New York Corporation, with its address at
50 South Buckhout Street
Irvington-On-Hudson
New York 10533 (the "Company")
and Jerry Blumberg
whose residence address is
4 Hearth Court, Coram, N.Y. 11727 (the "Employee")
(the "Agreement")



RECITAL:

The Company desires to secure the services of Employee,and Employee desires
to furnish services to the  Company, on the terms and conditions set forth
in this Agreement. 


AGREEMENT:

In consideration of the mutual promises contained in this 
Agreement and other good and valuable consideration, the receipt  
and sufficiency of which the parties acknowledge, the parties agree 
as follows:

1. Employment Term.    The Company agrees to employ Employee, 
and Employee agrees to enter the Company's employment, for a period 
of one year commencing on the third day of November, 1997 (the 
"Employment Term").

 2. Duties. During the Employment Term, the Company shall 
employ Employee and Employee shall serve as the Company's National 
Accounts Sales Manager. In such capacity, Employee shall be 
responsible for the sales and marketing of the Company's Kensel(r) 
and Tyvek(r) jacket products to the retail stores identified in 
Exhibit A hereto (the "Target Accounts"). Employee will be 
responsible for direct selling to the Target Accounts and the 
attendance at and management of the appropriate trade shows. 
Employee also shall perform such other duties and exercise such 
powers as the Company's President, Vice President of Sales or Board 
of Directors may reasonably require.

3. Sole Employment. Employee agrees that his employment by the 
Company as set forth herein shall be his sole employment and he 
shall not perform any advisory, or in any other capacity, work for 
any other individual, firm or company without the prior written 
consent of the Company. The Company hereby consents to Mr. 
Blumberg's present and continued involvement in his personal 
business project of selling a neon sign product to the Home 
Shopping Network and other interested parties. Mr. Blumberg 
warrants that his involvement in such project will not materially 
detract from the time and attention he devotes to his duties under 
this Employment Agreement. Other than the foregoing, Employee shall 
devote all of his business time and attention to the Company's 
business and affairs. 

4. Compensation. 

4.1	 Salary. In consideration of the services to be 
rendered by Employee, the Company agrees to pay Employee, and 
Employee agrees to accept, an annual salary of $25,000 during the 
Employment Term. In no year shall the Company decrease Employee's 
salary prevailing at the end of the preceding year. The Company 
shall pay Employee's salary in accordance with the Company's 
regular payroll practices.

4.2 	Bonus. In addition to the salary mentioned in 
paragraph 4.1 above, for each of the Company's fiscal years that 
fall, in whole or in part, within the Employment Term, the Company 
shall, based upon the Company's net sales (i.e. exclusive of any 
shipping and handling charges) to the Target Accounts for which 
payment in full has been received by the Company as determined in 
accordance with generally accepted accounting principles ("Net Paid 
Target Sales"), pay Employee an annual bonus equal to a percentage 
of $25,000 for such fiscal year, as follows:

the Company will pay Employee a bonus calculated by 
multiplying $25,000 by a fraction rounded to the nearest 
hundredth. The numerator of this fraction is the Company's Net 
Paid Target Sales for such fiscal year rounded to the nearest 
thousand dollars and the denominator is 1,000. For example; if 
the Company had Net Paid Target Sales of $1,836,279 in its 
1998 fiscal year, then the Employee's bonus for the 1998 
fiscal year would be calculated as follows:

Bonus	= 1,836 divided by 1,000 times $25,000
= 1.836 x $25,000
= 1.84  x $25,000
= $46,000

The Company shall pay each annual bonus on a quarterly 
basis as such bonus accrues, within two months after the end of 
each fiscal quarter. If the Employment Term begins on a day other 
than the first day of the Company's fiscal year, the bonus for 
fiscal years ending immediately after the beginning and the end of 
the Employment Term shall be prorated. The Company and Employee 
agree that the term Net Paid Target Sales means exclusively those 
sales made to the prospective customers identified as Target 
Accounts on Exhibit A attached to this Agreement and does not 
include sales made to any other customer. Notwithstanding the 
foregoing sentence, the Company and Employee recognize that, from 
time to time, the Employee may sell a "custom" project to a 
customer who may or may not be a Target Account and in such cases 
the Company and Employee shall mutually agree upon Employee's 
commission on such sale.

4.3  Stock Options.  The Company is a wholly owned 
subsidiary of Alfa International Corp., a publicly held New Jersey 
corporation ("Alfa"). Employee shall, in accordance with the terms 
and conditions of the "Alfa International Corp. 1987 Stock Option 
Plan (the "Plan"), have the option to purchase up to 10,000 shares 
of Alfa's $0.01 par value common stock (the "Alfa Common Stock") 
during each year of the Employment Term, at an exercise price equal 
to $1.00. Employee's right to purchase the aforesaid Alfa Common 
Stock shall be governed by the terms and conditions of the Plan, 
all of which are incorporated herein by reference. 

5. Employee Benefits.

5.1   Insurance.   During the Employment Term, the Company 
shall, in accordance with the then prevailing Company policy, offer 
to provide Employee with health insurance coverage under its group 
policy, provided such group policy remains in force. If Employee 
elects not to participate in such group policy, he shall execute 
and deliver to the Company a certificate to that effect.

5.2  Other Benefits.   The Company shall provide Employee 
with any pension plan that the Company offers any of its executives 
at any time during the Employment Term. The Company shall offer 
such pension plan to Employee on the most favorable terms and under 
the most favorable conditions as such plan is offered to any other 
Company executive.


6.  Expenses.   The Company agrees to pay, or reimburse 
Employee for, all travel, entertainment and other business expenses 
properly incurred or expended by Employee in performing his duties 
and responsibilities on behalf of the Company under this Agreement. 
Employee agrees to provide proof of the expenses for which he seeks 
reimbursement in accordance with the Company's present expense 
reporting policies.

6.1  Home Office.   The Company and Employee agree that 
Employee will maintain an office in his residence from which 
the Employee will conduct a large portion of his business 
activities on behalf of the Company. The Company and Employee 
acknowledge that the business expenses to be reimbursed to 
Employee in accordance with this paragraph 6 shall include the 
actual cost of telephone calls made by the Employee from his 
home on behalf of the Company but shall not include any costs 
associated with maintaining telephone lines nor any costs 
(other than the actual costs of telephone calls) associated 
with maintaining such home office. The Company will arrange 
and pay for the installation of Tele-Magic Enterprise software 
on Employee's computer in his home office. Such software and 
all data (including, but not limited to, databases of customer 
and potential customer lists and associated information) 
provided therewith or subsequently added thereto during the 
Employment Term, whether by the Company or Employee, shall at 
all times be and remain the exclusive and proprietary property 
of the Company. Employee shall return all such software and 
data to the Company at the end of the Employment Term and 
shall not make or retain any copies thereof at any time during 
or after the Employment Term without the express written 
permission of the Company. Employee specifically acknowledges 
that all such software and data that he receives from the 
Company or creates during the Employment Term is a part of the 
"Confidential Information" described more fully in paragraph 9 
of this Agreement.

7.    Vacations. Employee shall be entitled to and shall 
accrue vacation time at the rate of two weeks per year of the 
Employment Term. 

8.   Termination of Employment / Agreement.

8.1  Cause    The Company may terminate Employee's 
employment for cause upon thirty days written notice if (i) 
Employee is convicted, by a court of competent and final 
jurisdiction, of any crime which constitutes a felony in the 
jurisdiction involved, (ii) Employee commits any act of fraud 
against or breaches a fiduciary obligation to the Company, (iii) 
Employee shall incur any liability on the Company's behalf not in 
the ordinary course of the Company's business (iv) the 
representation contained in paragraph 10 of this Agreement is false 
or (v) in the sole determination of the Company, Employee fails or 
refuses in any respect to perform his duties under this Agreement, 
including but not limited to, the Company's determination that 
sales to the Target Accounts are insufficient. If the Company 
terminates Employee's employment without cause, Employee shall be 
entitled to receive the salary provided for in Paragraph 4.1, the 
Bonus described in Paragraph 4.2, the Stock Options described in 
Paragraph 4.3 and the benefits (to the full extent not disallowed 
by the terms of their contracts) described in Paragraph 5 until the 
end of the Employment Term.

8.2   Death or Permanent Disability.   If, during the Employment 
Term, Employee shall die or become permanently disabled (as defined 
in sub paragraph 8.3) his Employment under this Agreement shall 
terminate. In the event of Employee's death during the Employment 
Term, the Company shall pay the personal representative of 
Employee's estate the salary and bonus provided for in Paragraphs 
4.1 and 4.2 through the end of the month after the month in which 
Employee's death occurs. Thereafter this Agreement will 
automatically terminate.

8.3   Disability.   If, during the Employment Term, Employee 
shall become physically or mentally disabled so as to be unable to 
perform any of his material duties hereunder, he shall nonetheless 
continue to receive his full salary (but not his bonus) for a 
period of three months or any part thereof for any continuous 
disability, less any amounts received by him from any disability 
insurance policy then in effect for his benefit. At any time 
subsequent to the expiration of such three month period, the 
Company may cancel this Agreement upon ten days written notice to 
the Employee.
    No disability shall be deemed to exist until after the 
Employee shall have been unable to perform any of his duties 
hereunder for a period of thirty consecutive days, but if such 
disability continues for sixty consecutive days, then the same 
shall be deemed to have existed from the first day of such 
disability.

     If the Employee shall have been disabled and shall have 
returned to work after the end of such disability, any new 
disability commencing within ninety days of the termination of the 
prior disability shall be deemed a continuation of the prior 
disability, and the period of all such disabilities shall be added 
together to determine the rights of the Employee and the Company 
hereunder.

     At the end of any temporary disability, Employee shall return 
to work and this Agreement shall continue as though such disability 
had not occurred, except where specifically provided to the 
contrary herein. During any period of disability, Employee shall 
not receive any allowance for expenses.

   9.      Non-Competition Covenant / Non-Disclosure.    For a 
period of one year after the termination (for any reason 
whatsoever) or expiration of this Agreement, Employee shall not, 
directly or indirectly, solicit or service any accounts, customers, 
vendors, suppliers or other persons or entities with which Employee 
or the Company has done business, negotiated or otherwise had 
business dealings at any time during the three years prior to such 
termination or expiration date. In the event of Employee's actual 
or threatened breach of provisions of this paragraph, the Company 
shall be entitled to any injunction restraining Employee therefrom. 
Nothing contained herein shall be construed as prohibiting the 
Company from pursuing any other available remedies for such breach 
or threatened breach, including recovery of damages from Employee.

       Employee's work for the Company will give Employee access to 
"Confidential Information" about the Company and its products and 
business affairs. For the purpose of this Agreement, "Confidential 
Information" means all confidential or proprietary information 
owned by the Company whether now existing or created by the 
Employee or the Company during the Employment Term, including 
without limitation all customer lists and pricing information, all 
sales and marketing strategies, all inventions and discoveries, all 
designs, techniques, methods, processes, know how, ideas and 
concepts, all computer programs, records and files, all 
manufacturing and cost data, and all other confidential or 
proprietary information in any form, whether copyrighted, 
copyrightable, or uncopyrightable, patented or unpatented, 
patentable or unpatentable, and all patents, copyrights, 
trademarks, trade secrets and other intellectual property rights. 
Employee agrees that during the Employment Term and after the 
termination or expiration of this Agreement, he will not use any 
Confidential Information or disclose any Confidential Information 
to anyone else except to the extent necessary to perform his duties 
to the Company and Employee will take all measures reasonably 
necessary to preserve and protect the confidentiality of, and to 
avoid any violation of the Company's proprietary rights with 
respect to, all Confidential Information. Employee hereby 
acknowledges that the Company will be the sole owner of all 
Confidential Information that Employee may create, develop, acquire 
or learn after the commencement date of this Agreement and Employee 
hereby assigns to the Company all right, title and interest that 
Employee may acquire with respect to any Confidential Information 
at any time after that date. Employee agrees not to make or 
maintain any duplicate or back-up copies of any Confidential 
Information and agrees to return all Confidential Information to 
the Company within ten (10) days after the expiration or 
termination of the Employment Term. Upon request, Employee will 
execute any instrument or assignment that the Company reasonably 
deems necessary to assign to the Company any rights that Employee 
may acquire to any Confidential Information.

10. Representation.
   Employee, in order to induce the Company  to enter into and 
perform this Agreement, hereby represents and 
warrants to the Company that he is not a party to any contract, 
agreement or understanding which prevents or prohibits, or with 
notice or the passage of time or both, would prevent or prohibit 
Employee from entering into this Agreement or fully performing all 
of his obligations hereunder or which would be breached thereby.

11.    Miscellaneous.

    11.1   Assignment.    This Agreement shall inure to the 
benefit of and shall be binding upon the heirs and personal 
representative of Employee and shall inure to the benefit of and be 
binding upon the Company and its successors and assigns. However, 
other than the fact that the Company may, in its sole discretion, 
assign this Agreement in its entirety to Alfa, neither party may 
assign, transfer, pledge, encumber, hypothecate or otherwise 
dispose of this Agreement or any of its or his rights hereunder 
without the prior written consent of the other party, and any such 
attempt to assign (other than the Company assigning this Agreement 
to Alfa), transfer, pledge, encumber or hypothecate without such 
consent shall be null and void.



      11.2   Governing Law; Jurisdiction; Venue.  This Agreement 
shall be governed by, and construed and enforced in accordance 
with, the laws of the State of New York applicable to contracts 
made and to be entirely performed therein and without regard to 
principles of conflict of laws. Any litigation based hereon, or 
arising out of, under or in connection with this Agreement shall be 
brought and maintained exclusively in the courts of the State of 
New York in Westchester County New York or in the United States 
District Court for the Southern District of New York. Each of 
Employee, the Company and Alfa hereby expressly and irrevocably 
submit to the jurisdiction of the courts of the State of New York 
in Westchester County New York and of the United States District 
Court for the Southern District of New York for the purpose of any 
such litigation set forth above. Each of the Employee, the Company 
and Alfa hereby expressly and irrevocably waives, to the fullest 
extent permitted by law, any objection which they have or hereafter 
may have to the laying of venue of any such litigation brought in 
any such court referred to above and any claim that any such 
litigation has been brought in an inconvenient forum.


11.3    Attorney's Fees.    If a dispute arises from this 
Agreement, the prevailing party shall be entitled to collect its 
reasonable costs and expenses, including reasonable attorneys' 
fees, from the losing party.


11.4   Complete Agreement.   This Agreement supersedes any 
and all prior agreements and understandings between the parties, 
whether written or oral, with respect to the Company's employment 
of Employee and constitutes the complete understanding between the 
parties with respect to the Company's employment of Employee. No 
statement, representation, warranty or covenant made by either 
party with respect to Employee's employment will be binding unless 
expressly set forth in this Agreement. This Agreement may not be 
altered, modified or amended except by written instrument signed by 
each of the parties. Exhibit A attached hereto is incorporated 
herein as if set forth in the body of this Agreement.


11.5   Counterparts.   The parties may execute this 
Agreement in counterparts, each of which shall constitute an 
original, but all of which together shall constitute one and the 
same instrument.


11.6  Headings.   The paragraph headings of this Agreement 
are for convenience of reference only and shall not expand, modify, 
limit or define the text of this Agreement.


11.7   Notices.  Unless otherwise specifically provided in 
this Agreement, all notices, requests, consents, approvals, 
agreements or other communications required or permitted to be 
given under this Agreement shall be in writing and shall be 
delivered in of the following means: (a) by hand; (b) by facsimile 
transmission to those parties with fax numbers indicated below 
(with subsequent written confirmation by another means in 
compliance with this Section 11.7); (c) by registered or certified 
mail, first class postage prepaid, return receipt requested; or (d) 
by nationally recognized overnight courier, addressed to the 
respective addresses of the parties as follows:


If to the Company:

Ty-Breakers Corp.
50 South Buckhout Street
Irvington-on-Hudson, NY 10533
Fax: (914) 591-1997
ATT: President


If to Employee:

Jerry Blumberg
4 Hearth Court
Coram, N.Y. 11727


or to such other address as any party shall designate for himself 
or itself by notice to the other parties given in accordance 
herewith.  Any such notice or other communication shall be deemed 
to have been given or made (i) upon delivery, if delivered 
personally, (ii) one (1) business day after transmission, if 
delivered by facsimile transmission during normal business hours, 
(iii) three (3) business days after mailing, if mailed, or (iv) one 
(1) business day after delivery to the courier, if delivered by 
overnight courier service.

11.8  Severability.  In the event that any one or more of 
the provisions of this Agreement shall be deemed to be invalid, 
illegal or unenforceable in any respect, in whole or in part, the 
validity, legality and enforceability of the remainder of the 
provisions of this Agreement shall not in any way be affected.

11.9    Waivers.   A written waiver, or successive written 
waivers, by either party of any breach or default by the other 
party of any of the terms and provisions of this Agreement, shall 
not operate as a waiver, or custom of waiver, of any other breach 
or default, whether similar to or different from the breach or 
default waived. No waiver shall be effective unless in writing and 
signed by the party to be charged.

Ty-Breakers Corp.,                   Employee
a New York corporation



By                                   By           
Frank J. Drohan                        Jerry Blumberg
President



As to Paragraph 4.3 only,
Alfa International Corp.,
a New Jersey corporation


By                        
Frank J. Drohan
President


Exhibit A

List of Target Accounts


The Target Accounts consist of the 3,750 potential customers 
named on those two certain listings ("Listings") of 1,402 
Department Stores and 2,348 Specialty Stores which the Company 
purchased from The Salesman's Guide and are identified thereon as 
Job # 19364.

The Company has delivered the Listings to Employee concurrent 
with the execution of this Employment Agreement by the parties 
hereto.

The cover sheets of the Listings are attached hereto for 
identification purposes.







Jerry Blumberg
4 Hearth Court
Coram, New York 11727


November 3, 1997


Mr. Frank J. Drohan
Ty-Breakers Corp.
50 South Buckhout Street
Irvington, N.Y 10533


Dear Frank,


This is to confirm to you that I have been made aware of and been 
offered participation in the company's group medical insurance 
plan.

At the present time I have my own coverage and therefore decline 
to participate in such group coverage offered by the Company. 

Should circumstances change and I wish to participate in the 
future I will so inform you.








                                                 Best regards,



                                                 Jerry Blumberg