Sorbitol, together with other polyhydric alcohols such as glycerol, is one of the ingredients in alkyl resins and rigid polyurethane foams manufacturing.
In tobacco industries, sorbitol may give mild effect in sniff, good humectant agent, and avoid acrolein formation which formed in burned glycerine. Sorbitol is used as softener and colour stabiliser in textiles and as softener in leather industries.
The manufacture of vitamin C consumes approximately 15% of world sorbitol production. Gluconobacter oxydans are used for the oxidative conversion of D-sorbitol to L-sorbose an important intermediate in de manufacture of L-ascorbic acid (Vitamin C).