In the industrial pumping industry, vertical sump pumps are used to pump liquids containing large solids, fibrous slurries, and clean or lightly contaminated liquids.

The pumping head is suspended into the pumped liquids and the drive motor is dry installed on the top. There is a separate discharge pipe and support pipe column on the pump.

The vertical sump pump consists of a vertical line shaft with slide bearings or a cantilever design without slide bearings.