After the disbandment of the original incarnation of Teška Industrija, Hadžiavdić reformed the band on three occasions, in 1984, 1991 and 1996, the group releasing studio albums which saw little attention of the media and the audience.

In 2005, Lenđel, Hadžiavdić, Propadalo and Memić reunited to mark the band's 30th anniversary with a concert, which led to the release of the reunion album Kantina.

After the album, Hadžiavdić and Propadalo continued the band's activity with a group of younger musicians, fronted by female vocalist Lea Mijatović.

[1] Lenđel started his career as a teenager, forming the band Suze Mladih Krokodila (Young Crocodiles' Tears) in 1964, in which he played guitar.

[1] The band was named after a verse from the song "Čisti zrak" ("Clean Air"), written two years earlier by poet Duško Trifunović and singer-songwriter Narcis Vučina.

[1] It attracted attention with the songs "Bijeg" ("The Escape"), "Koncert tročinski" ("Three Act Concert"), and "Od Olova do Trnova" ("From Olovo to Trnovo"), the latter inspired by the Igman march.

[1] In the summer of 1976, on the insistent of their record label,[3] the band appeared on the Split Festival with the light-hearted "Život je maskenbal" ("Life Is a Masquerade"), achieving large success with the song.

[1] At the end of 1976, Memić left Teška Industrija and formed his own band, Zmaj od Bosne (Dragon of Bosnia), appearing with them on the 1977 edition of the BOOM Festival, and soon after starting a solo career.

[1] Teška Industrija was joined by the vocalist Goran Kovačević (formerly of the band Čisti Zrak), bass guitarist Aleksandar Kostić, drummer Munib Zoranić and keyboardist Darko Arkus, with Lenđel and Hadžiavdić remaining the only two original members.

The new lineup featured Sead Trnka (bass guitar), Alen Mustafić (vocals), Đani Pervan (drums) and Dino Olovčić (keyboards).

[2] Released through minor record label Sound Galaxy in the wake of the Yugoslav Wars, the album saw little attention of the media, and the group disbanded for the third time.

[2] In 2005, Teška Industrija reunited in the lineup featuring Gabor Lenđel, Vedad Hadžiavdić, Ivica Propadalo and Seid Memić to mark the band's 30th anniversary with a concert in the cinema hall on the Croatian island of Murter.

[2] After the album release, Hadžiavdić and Propadalo continued to work as Teška Industrija with a group of new members, female vocalist Lea Mijatović, keyboardist Zrinka Majstorović and drummer Robert Domitrović.

[2] In the spring of 2013, prior to Croatia joining the European Union, the band recorded the joking song "EUdala se lijepa naša" ("Our Beautiful Got EUmarried") with the Bosnian actress Zana Marjanović.

[2] In 2024, in order to mark the band's 50th anniversary, Gabor Lenđel, Seid Memić and Aleksandar Kostić, alongside guitarist Vedran Božić (formerly of Boomerang and Time) and drummer Petar "Peco" Petej (formerly of Delfini) recorded the hard rock-oriented album Putnički voz uspomena (Passenger Train of Memorries), releasing it under the name Teška Industrija.