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Recently, in view of environment, safety, comfort and convenience for cars, the demand of low fuel consumption is increasing more than before, and weight saving of the automotive parts is pursued. In the tide of weight saving, there is a strong demand of light weightening of the backing plate by replacing steel with plastics. We have been developing long fiber phenolic molding compound, which has excellent mechanical strength and excellent heat resistance, and have examined in order to apply it to the backing plate for brake pad. By applying this material to backing plate, the weight of brake pad can be reduced in half compared with that of conventional pad made of steel. In the automotive parts, it is said that reduction of part weight under the suspension is about ten times as effective for reducing fuel consumption as that of weight upper the suspension, therefore, phenolic brake pad has a big impact.