The company was founded in 1860 as Fabryka Wyrobów Miedziowych, a mechanical workshop specializing in the manufacture of copper products.

In 1924, the Polish government ordered a licence production of French light bombers Potez XV, and in 1925–1926, there were built 100 of them in Plage & Laśkiewicz.

Prototype light passenger planes: biplane R-IX, and high-wing R-XI were not ordered by the Polish Airlines.

The light passenger plane Lublin R-XVI of 1932 was not ordered by the airlines, but six were produced as air ambulance R-XVIb.

After delivering seven of the ordered 50 R-XIIIF aircraft in late 1935, the Polish Ministry of War broke the contract under a pretext.

As a result, the factory went bankrupt and then was nationalized under the name LWS (Lubelska Wytwórnia Samolotów – Lublin Aircraft Works).